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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.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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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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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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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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Heaven's my destination.
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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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