That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go … - Thornton Wilder

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My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Thornton Wilder

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

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