Marce Catlett Quotes

“Slavery was, and it is, correctable only by the courage to connect freedom with responsibility. By “responsibility” Andy has understood the ability and the readiness to do one’s own work and to clean up one’s own messes.”
― Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel

“The industrial replacement of neighborhood by competition and technology moves everything worthy of love out of reach.”
― Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel

“In those days nobody knew that he was a boy who belonged to a story. In those days he did not know it himself.”
― Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel

“The landmarks served also as mindmarks”
― Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel

“They felt in their flesh the ruled line by which the railroad had pierced the living country”
― Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel

“In that year”
― Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel