“The springtime of our lives seemed eternal, the coming of fall a mild interlude before flowers bloomed again.”
― The Tin Roof Blowdown
― The Tin Roof Blowdown
“Each of us is two selves,” he once told his congregation. The “great burden of life is to always try to keep that higher self in command.”
― Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
― Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
“A Jew asks over and over, “What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?”
― The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
― The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
“A nation is born in blood and purchases with blood its right to stand in the ranks with other nations.”
― The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
― The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
“fulfilling their expectations of the aged: sitting in a chair in a room, alone, musing on the past, on former glory, on missed opportunities, on the way things used to be. On dead people.”
― A Slow Fire Burning
― A Slow Fire Burning
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