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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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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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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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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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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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