I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan BehanAbout author
- Author's profession: Playwright
- Nationality: irish
- Born: February 9, 1923
- Died: March 20, 1964
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If on the other hand we found even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not date to put it beyond the pale.
C. S. Lewis
The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.
Clifford Geertz
