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Dad said I would always be “high minded and low waged” from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
“Contact with other peoples is often represented as making inevitably for tolerance. But that is true only for those who have already been greatly educated to tolerance. The simple man everywhere is apt to see whatever differs from himself as an affront, a challenge, and a menace.”
― The Mind of the South
― The Mind of the South
“He had no stomach for it,” Mrs. Johnson told me, “no heart for it; it wasn’t the war he wanted. The one he wanted was on poverty and ignorance and disease and that was worth putting your life into.”
(Page 249)”
― Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973
(Page 249)”
― Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973
“Romantic ardor is in basic principle Lethean. Its purpose is temporarily to blind us to one another; make us forget the low esteem in which we really hold one another, and in which we quite deserve to be held; the anesthetic administered to reason without which the race would not go on.”
― The Vale of Laughter
― The Vale of Laughter
“What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.”
― Rabbit Is Rich
― Rabbit Is Rich
“One is not entitled to contempt for something to which one is not equal.”
― The Vale of Laughter
― The Vale of Laughter
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