WIST Quotations

Oliver, Mary -- “The First Time Percy Came Back,” A Thousand Mornings (2012)

Dave — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:08:02 +0000

And now you’ll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won’t be false, and they won’t be true,
but they’ll be real.

Mary Oliver (1935-2019) American poet
“The First Time Percy Came Back,” A Thousand Mornings (2012)
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Mencken, H. L. -- “On Being an American” (1), Prejudices: Third Series (1922)

Dave — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:58:32 +0000

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
“On Being an American” (1), Prejudices: Third Series (1922)

Bacon, Francis -- “Of Death,” Essays, No. 2 (1625)

Dave — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:19:51 +0000

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Death,” Essays, No. 2 (1625)
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Gaiman, Neil -- Sandman, Book 3. Dream Country, # 19 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1990)

Dave — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:52:24 +0000

DREAM: Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British author, screenwriter, fabulist
Sandman, Book 3. Dream Country, # 19 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1990)
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