Sublime

Marshall Crenshaw performing at Princeton University. Marshall Crenshaw is a bespectacled singer-songwriter whose music has a slight 1950s/ pre-Beatles bent; his most famous song is probably “Someday, Someway” from his debut album. He played Buddy Holly in the movie La Bamba.

The quotes, talks, and speeches presented here are rooted in the old-fashioned Midwestern values for which Charlie has become known: lifelong learning, intellectual curiosity, sobriety, avoidance of envy and resentment, reliability, learning from the mistakes of others, perseverance, objectivity, willingness to test one’s own beliefs, and many

You smile in an expansive spirit. You feel that your soul has been broadened by the vision of incompetence conducted on so large a scale.

Give an ordinary man a day to write an article, and he will remember the things he has really heard latest; and may even, in the last glory of the sunset, begin to think of what he thinks himself. Give him an hour to write it, and he will think of the nearest text–book on the topic, and make the best mosaic he may out of classical quotations and

One Person—for Us

one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.