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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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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 more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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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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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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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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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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