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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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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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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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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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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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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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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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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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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to 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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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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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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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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