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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
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. 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 - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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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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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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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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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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