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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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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.
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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