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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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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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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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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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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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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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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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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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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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