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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.
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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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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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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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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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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