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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
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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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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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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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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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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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