I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID.
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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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