Emacs Smart Quotes & Sayings

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here! — Henry David Thoreau

He was so glad he didn't go through with his plan to end himself. What an idiot. Look at how much he would've missed if he'd followed through. — Jordan Silver

What does it matter
when I make mistakes?
They don't
make me
who
I
am. — Caroline Starr Rose

THE PEOPLE'S THIRST FOR FREEDOM HAS DRIVEN US TO DRINK BAD WATER. — Denis Johnson

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands. — Paul Robeson

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence ... defines what can and cannot be done to her. — John Berger