"i too crept away, my mind aswim in the ringing phrases, magnificent, golden,
and all of them incredibly, lies. What was he? The man had changed the world,
had torn up the past by it's thick, gnarled roots and had transmuted it, and
they, who knew the truth, remembered it his way -and so did i." -j. gardner
"memory believes before knowing remembers. believes longer than recollects, longer
than knowing even wonders. knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long
garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than
its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory
purlieus and enclosed by a tem foot steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo,
where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrembling, orphans in
identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant as
the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting
chimneys streaked like black tears." -w. faulkner
"your difference from me makes you bad, and your badness justifies, even demands,
my persuit of power over you -the oldest formula for agression known to man." -s. steele
"nor knowest thou what argument
thy life to thy neighbor's creed had lent.
all are needed by each one;
nothing is fair or good alone.
i thought the sparrow's note from heaven,
singing at dawn on the adlerbough;
i brought him home, in his nest, at even;
he sings the song, but it cheers not now,
for i did not bring home the river and sky;
-he sang to my ear, -they sang to my eye." -r.w. emerson
"through many dangers, toils and snares i have already come. it was grace that
brought me safe thus far, and grace that will lead me home." -?
"...that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced
that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other,
leaving absolute mental liberty." -t. hardy