"A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation."

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James Atlas

#Reputation Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.”
“Tom Reganâ€™s now classicÂ Case for Animal RightsÂ blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.”
“Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press
“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
“The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.”
“I want to die on my own terms.”

Source : "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.
“But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.”
“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.”

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