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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
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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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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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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