Bruce

“She'd tried listening to to one of them once, one of James's beloved podcasts: when had life become so dull, an extended social studies class where you were supposed to summon interest in the workings of corporations, the minutiae of historical events, spend your free time cramming for a test that didn't exist?”
― Emma Cline, Daddy

“To declaim against present times, and magnify the virtue of remote ancestors, is a propensity almost inherent in human nature.”
― David Hume, of Refinement in the Arts

“If you are reading, you are not at the beginning.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“He loved, that is, the process of coming to know… In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown… It is an erotic space. When the mind reaches out to know, the space of desire opens.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet