The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now. Kenneth Patchen Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us. Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880) I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. J.M. Barrie Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless. Leo Tolstoy Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910) The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves British author & classical scholar (1895 - 1985) Not everybody has to sing the melody. Pete Seeger In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash. John Berger A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. Aldous Huxley English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) |