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.

Quote by Thornton Wilder

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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware...

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ...

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment...

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the...

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the...

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it...

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are...

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of...

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of...

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...