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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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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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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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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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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 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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