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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Wisconsin
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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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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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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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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