Errorists Quotes & Sayings

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer

How strange a thing is the heart of man! — Murasaki Shikibu

My writings are the mirror of my soul and the dance of my mind. — Debasish Mridha

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched. We do not feel tainted. We can do anything, it seems, and come away clean.
We point to the Germans and Poles and Ukrainians who did and did not know of the atrocities around them. We like to think they were inwardly marked by the after-effects of that special form of ignorance. We like to think that in their nightmares the ones whose suffering they had refused to enter came back to haunt them. We like to think they woke up haggard in the mornings and died of gnawing cancers. But probably it was not so. The evidence points in the opposite direction: that we can do anything and get away with it; that there is no punishment. — J.M. Coetzee

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs. — Brian J. White

[In Christianity] humans are invited to co-create in mutual kenosis with this God who weaves our sins, mistakes, and follies into a pattern, and thus offers us salvation contingent on our willingness to have it. — Maggie Ross