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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
Cream
Ice
Enjoyment
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Life
Dessert
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Plates

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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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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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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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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