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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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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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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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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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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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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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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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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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