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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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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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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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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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 regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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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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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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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 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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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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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