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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.
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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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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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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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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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