* add soroyan quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -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-]"
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+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_