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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Ice
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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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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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Heaven's my destination.
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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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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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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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