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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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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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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Heaven's my destination.
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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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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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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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