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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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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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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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