Rec. #700: Revisiting Quote for These Times #2

[Originally posted January 22, 2017.]

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

--- James Baldwin
(See also Rec. #23)

Rec. #699: Revisiting Quote for These Times #8

[Originally posted April 14, 2017.]

"If it please God,

let less happen."

--- "Blandeur," Kay Ryan,

The Best of It, 2000

(Rec. #50)
(See also Rec. #498)

Rec. #694: Quote for These Times #17

"He was one of the unexpected things that happen in politics, and he happened with great thoroughness."

--- from "Hermann the Irascible: A Story of the Great Weep,"

The Chronicles of Clovis,
Saki, 1911

(See also: Rec. #172)

Rec. #408: Revisiting Quote for These Times #6

[Seemed appropriate to re-up this one.]

[QfTT #6 was originally posted March 2, 2017]

"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving."

--- The Fountain Overflows,

Rebecca West, 1956

It just remains SO relevant. 

Connection to previous Wreckage: The Fountain Overflows was Rec. #224. See also Quote for These Times #14.

Rec. #657: Quote for These Times #16

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another --- it's one damn thing over and over."

--- Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1930

(see also Rec. #264)

Rec. #605: Quote for These Times #15

 

"Ray, this 1987. Did you know that a girl can be whatever she wants to be?"

"I know -- my mom's a plumber."

--- Watts (and Ray),

Some Kind of Wonderful, 1987

(Rec. #101)

[Note: Of course John Hughes movies are often problematic (this one less than most, I would say), but it's interesting that the role women have in negotiating around men (as shown in movies, at the very least) has not really progressed ... at all in the last 30 years.]

 

Rec. #600: Quote for These Times #14

"Well, so [is] thunder, sad as if everything had gone wrong for the last time."

--- The Fountain Overflows,

Rebecca West, 1956

(Rec. #224)

Rec. #581: Quote for These Times #13

"The funeral itself was one of those unbelievable pieces of picturesque nightmare which sometimes slip into real life to remind one that there is nothing so painfully absurd that it cannot happen."

--- Black Plumes,

Margery Allingham, 1940

(Rec. #156) 

Rec. #574: Quote for These Times #12

"What we remember can be changed. What we forget we are always. We live the stories we tell; the stories we don't tell live us."

--- Firebird: A Memoir, 

Mark Doty, 1999

Rec. #569: Revisiting Quote for These Times #5

[Originally posted February 24, 2017]

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."

--- Fran Lebowitz,

Metropolitan Life, 1978

(Rec. #188)

Rec. #563: Revisiting Quote for These Times #3

[Originally posted January 28, 2017.]

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone."

--- Czesław Miłosz

Rec. #504: Quote for These Times #11

 

"History /

makes /

many bad movies."

--- Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems,

Elaine Equi, 2007

(Rec. #118)

Rec. #475: Quote for These Times #10

"The kids just kept staring at each other as though in silent agreement that the world was for the most part unjust and often very noisy."

--- The Undertaker's Gone Bananas,

Paul Zindel, 1978

(Rec. #16)

Rec. #452: Quote for These Times #9

"If you look back through the decades, people have to be reminded of what they've learned to live with."

--- Ian Christie, discussing When the Wind Blows 

on the Front Row podcast for Jan. 22, 2018

Also: Front Row was Rec. #425

Rec. #408: Revisiting Quote for These Times #6

[QfTT #6 was originally posted March 2, 2017]

"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving."

--- The Fountain Overflows,

Rebecca West, 1956

It just remains SO relevant. 

Connection to previous Wreckage: The Fountain Overflows was Rec. #224.

Quote for These Times #8

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

"If it please God,

let less happen."

--- "Blandeur," Kay Ryan,

The Best of It, 2000

(Rec. #50)

Quote for These Times #7

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

[Happy International Women's Day]

"There was a fashion just now, Noel complained, of writing and talking about women as if they were some separate, peculiar, and rather contemptible species, instead of ordinary human beings, with ordinary human qualities."

--- Crewe Train,

Rose Macaulay, 1926

(Rec. #84)

Quote for These Times #6

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving."

--- The Fountain Overflows,

Rebecca West, 1956

(Rec. #224)

Quote for These Times #5

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."

--- Fran Lebowitz,

Metropolitan Life, 1978

(Rec. #188)

Quote for These Times #4

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

"Do you know why one can't take the law into one's own hands? ... Because the law is too big to fit in one pair of hands. So if you feel you've got a comfortable grip on whatever you're holding, you can be pretty sure it's not the law."

--- Mildred Benjamin,

Territory, Emma Bull, 2007

(Rec. #10)