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Quotes on regrets and progress

The top 5 deathbed regrets, as recorded by palliative care worker Bronnie Ware: 1. “I wish I’d had the

09 Oct

Auden's demonology

W. H. Auden's sonnet In the Time of War, XII: And the age ended, and the last deliverer

01 Oct

Chesterton on adventure

GK Chesterton: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

26 Sep

Age on the surface

The narrator in CS Lewis’ That Hideous Strength: I remember thinking, "This is the sort of place which, as

06 Sep

Reject the second childhood

Steinbeck once more, from Travels with Charley in Search of America: It happens to many men, and I think doctors

28 Aug

How you affect others

Via Jon Tyson's recent emails; file these under How You Affect Others. From The Grapes of Wrath by

27 Aug