"Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments."

-- Gouverneur Morris

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“Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Pitch Dark”, p.149, New York Review of Books
“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”
“I don't think any professional accepts defeat.”
“Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.”
“I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.”

Source : "Slay Ride". Interview with John La Briola, www.westword.com. July 22, 2004.
“No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.”
“... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.”

Source : Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.274, University of Chicago Press
“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old”

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