Any man’s life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.
– Richard Brookhiser
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- What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? – Walt Whitman
- The more you engage and connect, the more engagements and connections you will have. – Loren Weisman
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- Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection – Paul Kalanithi
- I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard. – John Wesley
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
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- He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics. – Richard Brookhiser
- To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself. – Richard Brookhiser
- God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces. – Richard Brookhiser
- She became at once more intimate and more exalted. – Richard Brookhiser
- Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles. – Richard Brookhiser
- One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense. – Richard Brookhiser
- As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends. – Richard Brookhiser
- Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful. – Richard Brookhiser
- Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix. – Richard Brookhiser
- It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go. – Richard Brookhiser
- Most principles are limp until they are tested. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles. – Richard Brookhiser
- She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional. – Richard Brookhiser
- The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
- The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard’s bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least ?????c display of banana-eating he had ever seen. – Neil Gaiman
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- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. – John James Audubon
- Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy’s little girl. – Richard L Ratliff
- With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry. – Amit Kalantri
- The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde