Many who have spent a lifetime in love can tell you less of love than the child whose dog died yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

About Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the...

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