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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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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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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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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
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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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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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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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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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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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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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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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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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