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“A wealthy native of New York, Morris relocated to South Carolina as an aide to Gen. Nathanael Greene during the Revolutionary War. Writing to his father while preparing for a British attack by Lord Cornwallis, Morris penned what became South Carolina’s state motto: Dum spiro, sperando (While I Breathe, I Hope).”
― Charleston's Historic Cemeteries
― Charleston's Historic Cemeteries
“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum