People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
~ James Baldwin
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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I am a perfect stranger to France, which I have never seen, and I expect nothing from her king, whom I shall never know.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
~ Niels Bohr
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Whenever I’m in the company of capitalist capitalists, I’m reminded of the stark limitations of the symbolic variety. Think of how easily Elon Musk purchased and then destroyed that vanity fair of knowledge workers formerly known as Twitter.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.
~ Edmund Cooper
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
― Ansel Adams
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken
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