This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. What was her name? Where did she live and what sort of life about did she lead? What was her past? He wanted to know what furniture she had in her bedroom, the dresses she wore, the people she knew. Even his physical desire for her gave way to a deeper yearning, a boundless, aching curiosity.
Absolute | Faith | Meaning | Relationship | Truth |
None of us can ever express the exact measure of our needs, or our ideas, or our sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we long to inspire pity in the stars.
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If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
Think |
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.
Change | Civilization | Future | Global | Health | Inconvenient | Land | Security | Will |
Rain on the day you get married brings good luck.
Consciousness | Power | Understand |
Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.
Consideration | Man | Nothing |
Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
Affliction | Gloom | Light |
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.
Power | Revolution | Will | World |