“Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Dive deep. Drown willingly”
― White: The Great Pursuit
― White: The Great Pursuit
“A kindred spirit? Perhaps--if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being.”
― S.
― S.
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