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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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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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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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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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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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