Patty

“To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Well, they said, these are the pies we have. It was a proverb.”
― Anne Carson

“Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.”
― Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orangutans

“…the people who dwell in the land of dimness, the people who could not see themselves except as formless shadows moving in a mist, the people who had gouged out their own eyes to keep from looking at themselves in the mirror, these people, these glorious people were none other than ourselves: The Americans.”
― Henry Dumas, Jonoah & the Green Stone