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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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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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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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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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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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Heaven's my destination.
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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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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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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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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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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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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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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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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