Josh

“On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It’s the neighborhood of colleges and convents.”
― Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

“Without fully realizing it, I began writing my first book. It was neither a vocation nor a particular gift that pushed me to write, but quite simply the enigma posed by a man I had no chance of finding again, and by all those questions that would never have an answer.”
― Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

“John Dewey. ‘The serious threat to our democracy is not the existence of foreign totalitarian states. It is the existence within our own personal attitudes and within our own institutions of conditions which have given a victory to external authority, discipline, uniformity and dependence upon The Leader in foreign countries. The battlefield is also”
― Stuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

“That’s what I’m afraid of. Later. Later we’ll do something about pollution. Later we’ll do something about the population explosion. Later we’ll do something about nuclear war. We think we’ve got all the time in the world – but how much time has the world got? And how can we give it more? … Somebody has to begin to care.”
― Rich Handley, Bright Eyes, Ape City: Examining the Planet of the Apes Mythos