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Either power politics must yield to common decency, or the world must go spiralling down into a nightmare of which we can already catch some glimpses.
George Orwell
George Orwell
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Either power politics must yield to common decency, or the world must go spiralling down into a nightmare of which we can already catch some glimpses.
George Orwell
George Orwell
Fame! To be famous, Pound, one has to write so much, or so little? I forget which.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Fame! To be famous, Pound, one has to write so much, or so little? I forget which.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Reposted by J Tarwood
Rian Malan’s “My Traitor’s Heart” is very high up there in history and reportage. First half dozen pages are as propulsive as they come and it doesn’t really slack off from there even as it gets wider and deeper. The book should be far better known here.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Rian Malan’s “My Traitor’s Heart” is very high up there in history and reportage. First half dozen pages are as propulsive as they come and it doesn’t really slack off from there even as it gets wider and deeper. The book should be far better known here.
O wear your tribulation like a rose.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
O wear your tribulation like a rose.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Just as good customs require laws in order to be maintained, so laws require good customs in order to be observed.
Machiavelli
Machiavelli
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just as good customs require laws in order to be maintained, so laws require good customs in order to be observed.
Machiavelli
Machiavelli
Why is it that all those who have become above average either in philosophy, politics, poetry or the arts seem to be melancholy, and some to such an extent that they are even seized by the diseases of black bile?
—Aristotle
—Aristotle
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Why is it that all those who have become above average either in philosophy, politics, poetry or the arts seem to be melancholy, and some to such an extent that they are even seized by the diseases of black bile?
—Aristotle
—Aristotle
Vladimir Mayakovsky
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Vladimir Mayakovsky
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Vladimir Mayakovsky
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor