The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – Norman Douglas
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas
Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. – John Avlon