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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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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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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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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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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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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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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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