Chelsie’s Reviews > In the Light of What We Know > Status Update

“Watching a door close that can never be opened again is, I am sure, enough to break a heart” (49).
“I have come across anti-intellectuals in the most unlikely quarters, people who unpredictably bay at the whiff of aspiration, some because they can’t stand an uppity nigger, as it were, and some because love of learning visibly pains them” (49).

“keep the illusion of authorship” (39)

“In fact, I am inclined to think that a mark of a developing friendship is that one’s solicitous ness extends further back and deeper, no longer content with asking merely how the friend is doing but developing interest and concern in all the things and people, the workplace, love, and family, that stand and have stood as influences upon the life of the person one cares about more and more” (50)