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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
Heaven
Destination
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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 was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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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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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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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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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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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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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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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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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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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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