“I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.”
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“To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.”
“Some stories are so familiar its like going home.”
“...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”
“Do you remember Italy?”
“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”
“Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.”
“At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.”
“The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.”
“The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.”
“There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.”
“Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.”
“There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.”
“When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?”
“I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.”
“I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.”
“Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.”
“...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).”
“There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.”
“Our kids grew up here [in the White House]. Some of our best friends have been made here in this place. There have been moments that were highlights for us - that - you know, are going to be hard to duplicate.”