We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
Thornton WilderWhen God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton WilderThere is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton WilderThatโs 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- thatโs the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN
Thornton WilderI didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.
Thornton Wilder