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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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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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Heaven's my destination.
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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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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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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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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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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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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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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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