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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.

Thornton Wilder

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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About Thornton Wilder

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 novel The Eighth Day.