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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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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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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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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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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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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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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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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 at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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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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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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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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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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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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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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