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Posted on February 17, 2025February 17, 2025

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”—Helen Keller, American author, 1880-1968

Posted on June 22, 2022

“Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.”—Fran Lebowitz, American author, b. 1950

Posted on May 31, 2021

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”—Charles Eliot Norton, American author, 1827-1908

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

“The ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ are the priests of Twentieth-Century America.”—Nathanael West, American author, 1903-1940

Posted on April 23, 2017April 23, 2017

“Reality is the other person’s idea of how things should be.”—John Shannon, American author, 1943-present

Posted on June 3, 2016November 11, 2020

“Art without life is a poor affair.”—Henry James, American author, 1843-1916

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