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Heaven's my destination.

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
Destination
Travel
Heaven

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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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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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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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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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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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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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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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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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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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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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