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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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Ice
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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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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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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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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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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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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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 was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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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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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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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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