Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist (and occasional actor in his own plays.) He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and...

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