Quotes of the day, September 13
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
Scarlett Thomas
May 27
I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.
Toussaint Louverture
May 26
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.
Ellen Battelle Dietrick
May 25
Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
May 24
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.
Charles Dickens
May 23
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.
Tommy Lee Jones
