Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
~ Mark Twain
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others.
~ William Gibson
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A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.
~ Timothy Snyder
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Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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A gentleman can live through anything.
~ William Faulkner
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
~ George Santayana
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