Ginsburgs Death Quotes & Sayings

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ideology of liberal humanism found expression in the earliest reviews of Hardy's writing and remained a dominant force until the explosion of literary theory in the 1980s. It is a broad and still influential category. It endorses the moral value of the individual, and the strength of the human spirit. It prefers the integrity of an organic rural society to the anonymity and materialism of an urbanised and technological world. Applied to fiction, this ideology involves the naturalisation of the novel's world and its values, and the recognition of fictional character as presenting a unified subject. — Geoffrey Harvey

Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that convulsed Germany and at last drove Roosevelt to issue a public condemnation. He told reporters he could scarcely believe that such a thing could occur in twentieth century civilization. — Erik Larson

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken - formerly it was only the prominent - and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait. — Soren Kierkegaard

The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. — James Baldwin

Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death. — Paul Cornell

Hello, dinner. It's me, I'm starving. And I know where you live. — Lauren Hammond

Alone is current in truth's river, like togetherness. Alone has its own fidelity. But when you navigate that closer view of the shore, it often seems that faith you have in yourself is all the faith there is. — Gregory David Roberts