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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.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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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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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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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.
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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Heaven's my destination.
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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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