The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. – Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
If you dont want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. – Emma Thompson
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. – Jorge Luis Borges