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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
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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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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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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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