“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”
“It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.”
“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”
“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
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