"These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful stew of the past, the life caught in memory and imagination, serves it all up lavishly laced with silences, and provides us with a gourmand's series of short courses."

-- Doris Grumbach

#Memories Quotes #Unique Quotes #Past Quotes

“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.”

Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”
“The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.”
“We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.”
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
“Cricket was my reason for living.”
“What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
“For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.”

Source : "Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty".
“Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.”

Source : John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.9

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