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Walker Percy
“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

Russell Kirk
“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
Russell Kirk

Herbert Butterfield
“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.”
Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History

Graham Greene
“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”
Graham Greene, Orient Express

Jane Austen
“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

645 Wodehouse cracks me up — 393 members — last activity Mar 18, 2025 04:47PM
All Wodehouse, all the time. From Psmith to Blandings, from Uncle Fred to the incomparable Jeeves. Step right up, you'll be Right Ho-ing and stealing ...more
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