Alison Lurie On Tragedy
Alison Lurie (September 03, 1926 -) I want them all to have happy endings although I do realize this is not true to life. But…
Justice Harry Blackmun On When Life Begins
Justice Harry Blackmun (November 12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in…
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Paul Kane On Time Was
Paul Kane (March 23, 1950 -) Still, I must not forget that I once managed to put these things into writing. — Blanchot When the high-pitched sounds…
Ralph Waldo Emerson On Being Yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else…
Sherwin Bernard Nuland On Pain And Love
Sherwin Bernard Nuland (December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) When you recognize that pain – and response to pain – is a universal thing,…
Rainer Maria Rilke On Relationships And Solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that…
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Erich Fromm On Love
Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations,…
