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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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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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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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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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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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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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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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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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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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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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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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