"We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
~ Thornton Wilder ~












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

More Thornton Wilder quotes
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
"I can't look at everything hard enough!
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"Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-...
"Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's d...
"[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily rout...
"The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainly exempt from its operation. First when my daughte...