Today’s One-Liner (#191)
She loved [composer Richard] Wagner, which was something very difficult to understand. –Joe Zarella on Dorothy Day, in Rosalie G. Riegle, ed., Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her
Month: July 2025
Minute Particulars
His father and mother had walked where he would walk as a young man, drifter and dreamer, who would in his fiction delineate each footstep, each bird call, each oval of sand wet or dry,…
Today’s One-Liner (#190)
The Irish were born for leaving, otherwise the rest of the world would have no pubs. –Auntie Violet, in Kenneth Branagh’s film, Belfast
Stay with Christ
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famous dictum that he would stay with Christ even if he were proven scientifically wrong suggests no more and no less than a belief in the primacy of moral values over theoretical knowledge….
Today’s One-Liner (#189)
Jokes could be fatal in the Soviet Union. –Gary Saul Morson, Wisdom Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter