Affective Memories Quotes

“Senator William J. Fulbright’s book, The Arrogance of Power. He writes: The question that I find intriguing . . . is whether a nation so extraordinarily endowed as the United States can overcome that arrogance of power, which has afflicted, weakened, and in some cases destroyed great nations in the past . . . Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God’s favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations—to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image.”
― Laurence Luckinbill, Affective Memories: How Chance and the Theater Saved My Life

“I remember a saying on a tombstone in an Ozark graveyard that I’ve kept in my heart all my life: “Another link is broken in the household band / But a chain is forming in a better land.”
― Laurence Luckinbill, Affective Memories: How Chance and the Theater Saved My Life