This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
You seem disappointed that I am not more responsive to your interest in spiritual direction. Actually, I am more than a little ambivalent about the term, particularly in the ways it is being used so loosely without any sense of knowledge of the church's traditions in these matters.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.
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From the Tower falls the sound of bronze: the show goes on between drums argue that the glory of the districts.
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
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Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
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Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a na‹ve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep
J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
Western man is schizophrenic.