Jerrodm

“I fear more than that the chemical action which would be set up in my soul by a false homage to a symbol behind which are massed twenty centuries of authority and veneration.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Instead of understanding that they were the beneficiaries of history, they began to believe that they were the creators of it.”
― H.G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights

“It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Among the rewards of his expatriation were a heightened awareness of what he saw and an exhilarating sense of freedom. Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever