Tweetybird

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That’s what it was 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.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town: The Timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning Drama

“Over there are some Civil War veterans. Iron flags on their graves... New Hampshire boys... had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, though they’d never seen more than fifty miles of it themselves.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Everybody has a right to their own troubles.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“You're pretty enough for all normal purposes.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town