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Bruce Catton quote: "A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can..."
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. Bruce Catton
My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages... Ezra Pound
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct. Virginia C. Andrews
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair. To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by --I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad! Edna St. Vincent Millay
One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and, if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticize it, because it is criticizing us. But I must give you one word of warning. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of... A. A. Milne
Katharine Hepburn quote: "You can’t change the music of your soul."
You can’t change the music of your soul. Katharine Hepburn
That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. Stephen King
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate..."
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them. Cormac McCarthy
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation. Derrick Jensen
Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth. Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better. Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods Thomas Babington Macaulay
Helen Keller quote: "So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. Helen Keller
Alexander Pope quote: "Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n..."
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain Alexander Pope
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man..."
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. Nikos Kazantzakis
Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can. Barbara Kingsolver
He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading Chesterton just after they were married in November 1929, Scottish poets the following spring. Robert MacNeil

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