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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.

Thornton Wilder

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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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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'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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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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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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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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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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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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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Heaven's my destination.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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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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