Larry Carr

“The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable

“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

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Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.

from... THE MANSION page 106”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“I shall be seventy-two this year. Impossible to believe. Inside, an eternal twenty-two. I suppose that is how it is for everybody old.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable