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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

Thornton Wilder

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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
Night
Remember
Drunkenness
Whispered
Remembering
Equal
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