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On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

Thornton Wilder
Character, Past, Essentials
Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.