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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

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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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Potatoes
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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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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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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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