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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

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
Unknowable
Promise

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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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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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