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Quotes from Our Town — Thornton Wilder

1897–1975 United States

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Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Our Town (1938)

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ...Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?

Our Town (1938)

Whenever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense.

Our Town (1938)

People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.

Our Town (1938)

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

Our Town (1938)

I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize.

Our Town (1938)

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.

Our Town (1938)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thornton Wilder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.