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Thornton Wilder

Our Town

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  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    Now you know—that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
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    If it were a snake it would bite you.
  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    I always say: happiness, that’s the great thing! The important thing is to be happy
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    Well, you might as well know right now that I’m not perfect. It’s not as easy for a girl to be perfect as a man, because we girls are more—more—nervous.
  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you.
    You’re just a little bit crazy.
  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    anything about your wife irritates you—her conversation, or anything—just get up and leave the house. That’ll make it clear to her, he said. And, oh, yes! he said never, never let your wife know how much money you have, never.
  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    even if it don’t make sense; just so she’ll learn to obey.
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    Best thing to do is to give an order,
  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    Every man that’s ever lived has felt that way about it, George; but it hasn’t been any use. It’s the womenfolk who’ve built up weddings, my boy. For a while now the women have it all their own. 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.
  • Liizii Melohas quoted6 years ago
    George, I was thinking the other night of some advice my father gave me when I got married. Charles, he said, Charles, start out early showing who’s boss
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