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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.

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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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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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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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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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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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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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