Things People Said: We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neither savage nor wise.

Things People Said

A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• This, then, is love
• The Gift of Paying Attention
• Demand of Life
• Deepen The Mystery
• Time To Go?
• Perfection
• This is the way
• Boredom
• The one thing you must take
• Chance Is Powerful

A tremendous debt is owed to the following:

We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neither savage nor wise.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

-- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms

[ 27 September 2005 3:30 pm submitted by Unknown ]

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