Nov
17th
Tue
17th
Upon which many were tumbled.
Oct
29th
Thu
29th
…the things that we have and that we think are so solid—they’re like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into.
— Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
Oct
18th
Sun
18th
Ugly I am but never forget that I AM a god! The highest should serve, but so long as you worship me for my own sake I will not serve you. It is man who makes me ugly, by his worship of me. If man would let me serve him, I should be beautiful!
— Booth Tarkington on the god “progress” in The Turmoil
Jul
15th
Wed
15th
That’s a test of bipartisanship — whether you took ideas from both parties,” Emanuel said. “At the end of the day, the test isn’t whether they voted for it,” he said, referring to Republicans. “The test is whether the final product represented some of their ideas. And I think it will.
— Rahm Emanuel on Bloomberg
