Terry Brown

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson

“To possess another language is to possess another soul.”
― John le Carré