Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, As Of This Writing (2003)
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, As Of This Writing (2003)
Christopher Langton (1949) American computer scientist
Christopher Langton in: Roger Lewin (1990) Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos New York, Macmillan. p. 196
“I aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times and all hell broke loose in my mind.”
Mark Chapman (1955) American assassin
Mark Chapman http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/940986.stm
Desmond Morris (1928) English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter
Desmond Morris in: "The Dan Schneider Interview 8: Desmond Morris" at cosmoetica.com, first posted 2/16/08.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. V http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3741/3741-h/3741-h.htm#link2H_4_0009 <br class="br">1770s, The American Crisis (1776&ndash;1783)
“He went down to hell, but it was to break the chains, not to bind them.”
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Letter II
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in the Bible the highest and purest religion..... most of all in the history of Him in whose name we all are called. His religion — not the Christian religion, but the religion of Christ — the poor man's gospel; the message of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of love; and, oh, how gladly would I spend my life, in season and out of season, in preaching this! But I must have no hell terrors, none of these fear doctrines; they were not in the early creeds, God knows whether they were ever in the early gospels, or ever passed His lips. He went down to hell, but it was to break the chains, not to bind them.
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
Clifford D. Simak book Way Station
Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 18
Context: Hank Fisher would tell how he'd tried to break into the house and couldn't and there'd be others who would try to break into the house and there'd be hell to pay.
Enoch sweated, thinking of it.
All the years of keeping out of people's way, all the years of being unobtrusive would be for nothing then. This strange house upon a lonely ridge would become a mystery for the world, and a challenge and a target for all the crackpots of the world.