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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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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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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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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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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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