Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity a… - Thornton Wilder

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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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About Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (17 April 1897 – 7 December 1975) was a Pulitzer prize winning American author and playwright.

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Native Name: Thornton Niven Wilder
Alternative Names: Thornton N. Wilder
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But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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