Dave Russell

“People avenge themselves for the favors done them.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.”
― Kirk Curnutt, Breathing Out the Ghost

“But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up