touchstone quotations: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Philip Van Doren Stern on Good Starts

Monday, December 8, 2008

Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Philip Van Doren Stern on Good Starts

Mary Bailey (Donna Reed): Bread... that this house may never know hunger. Salt... that life may always have flavor.
George Bailey ( Jimmy Stewart): And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever.

George and Mary Bailey help the Martini family christen their first home in It's A Wonderful Life... one of the best films ever!

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Screenplay by Philip Van Doren Stern, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hacket, and Frank Capra
Liberty Films

Source: imdb.com

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013