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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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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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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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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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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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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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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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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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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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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