Neruda & Beckett & ...
Created | Updated Mar 22, 2006
Does he live a thousand days, or only one?
For a week, or for several centuries?
How long does a man spend dying?
What does it mean to say "for ever"?
Pablo Neruda
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We are all born mad. Some of us remain so.
Samuel Beckett
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
Graham Greene
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... The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, .... His culture is based on "I am not too sure."
H. L. Mencken
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality, it is a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertold Brecht