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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

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
Purpose
Success
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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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.
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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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