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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

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
Splendid
Men

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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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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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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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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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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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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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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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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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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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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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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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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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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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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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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