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The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train –Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl
I boasted to Rakitin that I gave an onion, but I’ll say it differently to you: in my whole life I’ve given just one little onion, that’s how much good I’ve done. –Grushenka to Alyosha,…
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work. –Natalie Goldberg, Writing down the Bones
Things that give you pleasure—When someone you don’t like meets with some misfortune, you’re pleased even though you know this is wicked of you. –Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney
This is something that requires thorough examination, with a thousand days of practice for training and ten thousand days of practice for refinement. –Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, translated by Thomas Cleary
The most intolerant places you can be these days is the academic campus. –Thomas Sowell, quoted in Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
It is not in our power to explain either the prosperity of the wicked or the afflictions of the righteous. –R. Yannai, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers
The fight for the dignity of all human life—and ultimately for a world that is more just, more beautiful, and more loving—needs all of us. –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
My job has been to spread the writing gospel. –Natalie Goldberg, The True Secret of Writing Sao Paulo; photo by Mev, September 1990
Don’t let the bastards grind you down. –Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., quoted in Karen Hall, The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest