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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.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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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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