X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=07d6916148e7198d2ac721a81e5568d5b1b36493;hb=2f2948a88598e30e6aeb728f4e04737c8df0661c;hp=58fdbbe1eb5be24834a7c360ed50f40e0e5a4c0c;hpb=8a31dfd5b241c3f11a0530f89cbe2d1c26e3f8fd;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 58fdbbe..07d6916 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -917,3 +917,40 @@ First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald +% +It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers +that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. +Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always, +somehow, be thanked. + -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction" +% +Let the victors, when they come, +When the forts of folly fall +Find thy body by the wall! + -- Matthew Arnold +% +unbeingdead isn't beingalive + -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_ +% +nothing except the impossible shall occur + -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_ +% +-tommorow is our permanent address +and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, +we'll move away still further:into now + -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_ +% +in Just- +spring when the world is mud- +luscious the little lame baloonman + +whistles far and wee + -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]" +% +life's not a paragraph +And death i think is no parenthesis + -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_ +% +Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. +We get very little wisdom from success, you know. + -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_