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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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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
Orchestration
Platitudes
Literature

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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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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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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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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.
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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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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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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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