Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.
Thornton WilderThat’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
-Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.
Thornton WilderWe can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton WilderMoney is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
Thornton WilderWe all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.
Thornton WilderAn American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.
Thornton WilderStichwörter: american
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton WilderEMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"
STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.
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