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American - Novelist
April 17, 1897
More Quotes by Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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