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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

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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
Enough
Important
Life
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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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Heaven's my destination.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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