Citas de Our Town

• We 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. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Years, Play

  Thornton Wilder (1957). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• Oh, tierra, eres demasiado maravillosa para que nadie se dé cuenta de ti. ¿Algún ser humano se da cuenta de la vida mientras la vive, cada minuto?

  Thornton Wilder

  Earth, Realize Life, Realizing

  Our Town act 3 (1938)

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• That’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

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Moving, Passion

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• EMILY: "¿Alguien se da cuenta de la vida mientras la vive... cada, cada minuto?" No. Los santos y los poetas quizá... algunos sí.

  Thornton Wilder

  Doe, Saint, Realize Life

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• See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

  Laozi

  Country, Compassion, Taoism

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• There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.

  Kami García

  Estúpido, Dos, Personas

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• Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

  Thornton Wilder

  Realize Life, Realizing, Humans

  Our Town act 3 (1938)

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• There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.

  Kami García

  Estúpido, Dos, Personas

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• Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

  Thornton Wilder

  Earth, Realizing, Wonderful

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

  Hedda Hopper

  Punishment, Two, Telephones

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• Si quieres tener paz en el mundo - paz en tu familia, paz en tu ciudad y paz en tu propia habitación - simplemente empieza con lo que crea paz dentro de ti. Esta vibración saldrá de ti en ondas, y estas ondas tienen un impacto muy positivo en el mundo.

  Christiane Northrup

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Impact

  FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Feb 25, 2010

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• Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

  Thornton Wilder

  Coffee, Sleep, Sunflower

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• En nuestra ciudad hay un lugar secreto donde todavía se pueden ver las estrellas por la noche, aunque parezca mentira. Es el único lugar así que queda, despejado de los cada vez más pequeños rascacielos que se levantan cerca. Es un buen lugar para pasear y hablar en susurros. Siguiendo la pequeña colina que se eleva desde el parque hasta un pequeño claro que domina la estatua del general sin brazos sobre su corcel de bronce, la mayoría de nosotros recordamos más tarde este lugar como el primer sitio donde supimos que podríamos estar enamorados.

  Joe Meno

  Stars, Believe, Night

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.221, Akashic Books

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• Hay una tierra de vivos y una tierra de muertos y el puente es el amor, la única supervivencia, el único sentido.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Life, Fun

  Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club

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• I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

  Joanne Woodward

  Summer, Thinking, Mind

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• Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

  Gary Jarman

  Forever, Want, Towns

  "The Cribs' Gary Jarman Talks Johnny Marr Collaboration, New Album". Entrevista con Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. 12 de junio de 2009.

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• Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

  Thornton Wilder

  Country, Travel, Want

  Thornton Wilder (1968). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Hogar, Escuela, Ciudades

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Lying, Journey

  Thornton Wilder (2007). “Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater”

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• When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.

  Paul Goodman

  Artist, Men, Community

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 153), 1956.

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• If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

  Frank Deford

  Crecer, Significa, Niños

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

  David Berg

  Cities, People, Heaven

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• Mi gran amor es mi condado natal de Cornualles, me encanta sentarme y ver a la gente disfrutar en las playas y en las ciudades portuarias de Cornualles.

  John Dyer

  Playa, Hogar, Amor Es

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• I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

  Charles Lloyd

  Mother, Men, Blessing

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Money

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