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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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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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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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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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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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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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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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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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