"History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present."

-- David Von Drehle

“[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.”
“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”
“Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.”
“Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.133, Hachette UK
“a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.”
“I'll be there for ya, girl. No matter what. Beck took a deep breath and released it slowly. He had to stay strong for her, make the tough decisions. It was best that Paul's daughter never know how he felt about her. There'd be less hurt that way, for both of them. Just keep her safe, God. I can settle for that.”
“No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.”
“Death is a name for beauty not in use.”

Source : 1953 'Composition in Late Spring', collected in The Collected Poems of Irving Layton (1971).

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