"Nothing truly wild is unclean."

--

John Muir

“I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.”
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.”
“But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same could be said the other way around. We all of us fall short now and again, and disappoint someone dear to us, or ourselves. Thankfully, my parents have always been the forgiving sort.”
“The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.”
“The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.”

Source : Neal Ascherson (1988). “Games with Shadows”, Hudson Annex
“My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.”
“Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.”
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”

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