quotations

“It's not hoarding if your shit is awesome.”

In Margaret Murray's 1955 Presidential Address to the Folklore Society she stresses the importance of folklore:

"we are too near to events which will become history to realise what folklore underlies them. But folklore is a living thing, it is always with us, and therefore may have effect on even the greatest events of history. "[Murray, 1955: 266]

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”
Marilynne Robinson -- Gilead

Virginia Woolf noted in her diary, “My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.”

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,” James Baldwin reflected in his finest interview, “but then you read.”

There is no better means of intensifying the treasured feeling of individuality than the possession of a secret which the individual is pledged to guard. The very beginnings of societal structures reveal the craving for secret organizations. When no valid secrets really exist, mysteries are invented or contrived to which privileged initiates are ad

Pity for oneself as a child feels more pardonable than pity for the current model, and is almost as satisfying.
Michael Chabon - Libertine

Samuel Johnson observed, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”