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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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Life
Comfortable
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War
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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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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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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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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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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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