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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

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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
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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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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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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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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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