A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #55

“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.”

– spoken by the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” one of my very favorite plays of all time

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