If one major lesson of the French Revolution is that people make history, another is that it rarely turns out as planned.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Midday Music Fix
KT Tunstall – Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Later Archive 2004)
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy — but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
~ James Baldwin
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Unconcerned but not indifferent.
~ Man Ray
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Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process.
~ Toni Morrison
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
~ John le Carré
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
~ Mark Twain
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There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.
~ Herta Müller
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