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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
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