Mac Carey

“To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing.”
― Will Durant

“It proves that Virginia Stephen was not born on the 25th January 1882, but was born many thousands of years ago and had from the very first to encounter instincts already acquired by thousands of ancestresses in the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“She realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

“It is the nature of things to be seen only once, As they happen along, bumping into each other, getting along.”
― John Ashberry