Salman Rushdie |
For a long while I have believed that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, witho...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 05:57:00 GMT |
Kurt Vonnegut |
When the last living thingHas died on account of us,How poetical it would beIf Earth could say,In a voice floating upPerhapsFrom the floorOf the Grand Canyon,"It is done.People did not like it here."
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:56:00 GMT |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea or sensation, never regains its original dimensions.
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:10:00 GMT |
W. B. Yeats |
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywh...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:25:00 GMT |
Robert Heinlein |
I thought about it during the last session of our class in History and Moral Philosophy. H. & M. P. was different from other courses in that everybody had to take it but nobody ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:25:00 GMT |
Ernest Hemingway |
"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:49:00 GMT |
Ayn Rand |
What did they seek from him? - thought Rearden - what were they after? He had never asked anything of them; it was they who wished to hold him, they who pressed a claim on him - and...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:26:00 GMT |
John Donne |
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:57:00 GMT |
