Wednesday, January 22, 2003
�I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything is moral and I am after something that isn�t. I have always found moralizing intolerable.�
- Hermann Hesse (1877 � 1962), German novelist and poet: Sinclair, in �Demian�, 1960.
�Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game�s aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as your, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.�
- Nick Hornby (b. 1957), British author: �1976 � 1986: Filling a Hole� from �Fever Pitch�, 1992.
�In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.�
- William Burroughs (1914 � 1997), American author: �Queer�, 1985.
�We must use time as a tool, not a couch.�
- John F. Kennedy (1917 � 1963), American Democratic president and politician: quoted in �The Observer�, December 10, 1961.
�Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil � not the strength to choose between the two.�
- John Cheever (1912 � 1982), American author: journal entry, 1956, in �John Cheever: The Journals�, ed. Robert Gottlieb, 1991.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 � 1962), German novelist and poet: Sinclair, in �Demian�, 1960.
�Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game�s aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as your, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.�
- Nick Hornby (b. 1957), British author: �1976 � 1986: Filling a Hole� from �Fever Pitch�, 1992.
�In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.�
- William Burroughs (1914 � 1997), American author: �Queer�, 1985.
�We must use time as a tool, not a couch.�
- John F. Kennedy (1917 � 1963), American Democratic president and politician: quoted in �The Observer�, December 10, 1961.
�Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil � not the strength to choose between the two.�
- John Cheever (1912 � 1982), American author: journal entry, 1956, in �John Cheever: The Journals�, ed. Robert Gottlieb, 1991.
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