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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
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Life
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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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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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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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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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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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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 was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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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 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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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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