Monday, January 13, 2003
�Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal-operation.�
- Tennessee Williams (1911 � 1983), American playwright: �The Timeless World of a Play�, from �The Rose Tattoo�, 1951.
�Our lives are dominated by symbols of our own making. Once we had invented time by differentiating one year from another, we became in thrall to the notion of the decade, the century, the millennium. Every twenty years the middle-aged celebrate the decade of their youth.�
- Gore Vidal (b. 1925), American novelist and critic: �Gods and Greens�, first published in �The Observer� (London), August 27, 1989, reprinted in �A View from the Diner�s Club�, 1991.
�Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in in terms of biography.�
- Anita Brookner (b. 1928), British novelist and art historian: of Bertie and Blanche Vernon, in �The Misalliance�, 1986.
�We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.�
- Albert Camus (1913 � 1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: �Reflections on the Guillotine� from �Resistance, Rebellion and Death�, 1961.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 � 1983), American playwright: �The Timeless World of a Play�, from �The Rose Tattoo�, 1951.
�Our lives are dominated by symbols of our own making. Once we had invented time by differentiating one year from another, we became in thrall to the notion of the decade, the century, the millennium. Every twenty years the middle-aged celebrate the decade of their youth.�
- Gore Vidal (b. 1925), American novelist and critic: �Gods and Greens�, first published in �The Observer� (London), August 27, 1989, reprinted in �A View from the Diner�s Club�, 1991.
�Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in in terms of biography.�
- Anita Brookner (b. 1928), British novelist and art historian: of Bertie and Blanche Vernon, in �The Misalliance�, 1986.
�We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.�
- Albert Camus (1913 � 1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: �Reflections on the Guillotine� from �Resistance, Rebellion and Death�, 1961.
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