We never know when history will produce figures like Lech Walesa, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Karol Wojtyla, Václav Havel, and all the lesser known heroes of the resistance. They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of
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“My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.”
― Sarah, Plain and Tall
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.”
― Sarah, Plain and Tall
“One might well conceive all of human history as the story of humankind's journey from beauty lost to beauty gradually sought and regained. Never, over the centuries, has the human need for beauty been extinguished...Art, somehow removed from the practical demands of everyday life, reveals that our kinship is not with the biological world only; it is also with the spiritual world.”
― Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography
― Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography
“Strangers talked freely to one another without caution. I had forgotten how rich and beautiful is the countryside--the deep topsoil, the wealth of great trees, the lake country of Michigan handsome as a well-made woman, and dressed and jeweled. It seemed to me that the earth is generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“History always moves in a multitude of singular stories that carry far bigger truths.”
― The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
― The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
“You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
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