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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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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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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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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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 dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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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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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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