Monday, December 22, 2003
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
- Garrison Keillor (b. 1942), American author: ‘Exiles’ published in “Leaving Home”, 1987.
“The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life, it urges us to follow… The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.”
- Louise Kapp Howe (b. 1934), American author and editor: introduction to “The Future of the Family”, 1972.
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs social condition and not vice versa.”
- Eugène Ionesco (1912 – 1994), Rumanian-born French playwright: ‘The Playwright’s Role’, first published in “The Observer” (London), June 29, 1958, reprinted in “Notes and Counter-Notes, 1962.
“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
- Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983), American philosopher: “The Passionate State of Mind”, 1955.
- Garrison Keillor (b. 1942), American author: ‘Exiles’ published in “Leaving Home”, 1987.
“The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life, it urges us to follow… The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.”
- Louise Kapp Howe (b. 1934), American author and editor: introduction to “The Future of the Family”, 1972.
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs social condition and not vice versa.”
- Eugène Ionesco (1912 – 1994), Rumanian-born French playwright: ‘The Playwright’s Role’, first published in “The Observer” (London), June 29, 1958, reprinted in “Notes and Counter-Notes, 1962.
“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
- Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983), American philosopher: “The Passionate State of Mind”, 1955.
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