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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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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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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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Heaven's my destination.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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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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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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