Russell Jurney

“Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars. We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that our earlier ambitions faded in its glare. As”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom / The Evolution of a Revolt

“The fundamental difference between a social network explanation and a non-network explanation of a process is the inclusion of concepts and information on relationships among units in a study.”
― Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical, and I was never accomplished at that. ‘I”
― John Fowles, The Magus