Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn’t a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on...
For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.
I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
This is the real warning of : The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed.
Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.
It’s shameful that today’s mouthy political expositors aren’t better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn’t studied Shakespeare?
Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
