Our Town and Other Plays
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Good-bye
I didn’t realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look.
Good-bye, Good-bye, world. Good-bye, Grover’s Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clock 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. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it
- every, every minute?
STAGE MANAGER: No.
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Marriage Advices
if anything about your wife irritatea 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.
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Housewives
... both of those ladies cooked three meals a day - one of’em for twenty years, the other for forty - and no summer vacation. They brought up two chikdren a piece, washed, cleanes the house - and never a nervous breakdown.
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Envelope
George: What’s funny about that?
Rebecca: But listen, it’s not finished: United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God - that’s what it said on the envelope.
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Women
Golly, they’re different from men. And they’re awfully mysterious, too. You never can be really sure what’s going on in their heads. They have a kind of wall around them all the time - of pride and sort of play-acting: I bet you could know a woman a hundred years without ever being really sure whether she liked you or not.
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Going Away
George: And, like you say, being gone all that time... in other places and meeting other people... Gosh, if anything like that can happen I don’t want to go away. I guess new people aren’t any better than old ones. I’ll bet they almost never are. Emily... I feel that you’re as good a friend as I’ve got. I don’t need to go and meet the people in other towns.
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Perfection
MRS ANTROBUS (calmly, almost dreamily) : I 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 made up for mine. (she takes off her ring and looks at it) 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.
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