"The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found."

-- Judith Perelman Rossner

#Past Quotes #Found Quotes

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”
“I should have known [â€¦] I am the rain. [â€¦] I am the land [â€¦] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.”
“I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.”
“I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.”
“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
“A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”

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