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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
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Heaven
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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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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'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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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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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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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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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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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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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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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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