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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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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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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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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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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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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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