David Dunlap

“Think of me as a man to whom God has given talent and a good heart. I make no greater claims.”
― Joseph Haydn

“Children are the strongest antidote to grief, not because of their unconditional love or their joy or because they take pain away, nothing like that, nothing like an inspirational quote embroidered on a pillow for your sofa. Children are the antidote because of their unrelenting needs, their continuous, voracious, narcissistic, selfish insistence on living, their unceasing demands that those needs, no matter how trivial, be met immediately and urgently.”
― Ilona Bannister, Five

“At heart, Roosevelt’s progressivism stemmed from a conservative desire to see the old elite maintain authority rather than defer to a rising robber-baronocracy.”
― David S. Brown, In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution

“She had money and health and beauty, the triune of perfect starriness, which makes all men astronomers.

[of Clara Middleton]”
― George Meredith, The Egoist