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I. A. R. Wylie

  • “Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.”

    • I. A. R. Wylie,
    • "The Wonderful Story," in Good Housekeeping ()

  • “The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.”

    • I. A. R. Wylie,
    • "Learning How to Live," in Reader's Digest ()

  • “We must accept life for what it actually is — a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.”

    • I. A. R. Wylie

I. A. R. Wylie, Australian-born English-U.S. writer, screenwriter, poet

(1885 - 1959)

Full name: Ida Alena Ross Wylie