Roughing It, p. 155
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Context: Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.
“He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm" (1869), anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=UwcCAAAAQAAJ (1872)
“Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites…”
Nicomachus (60–120) Ancient Greek mathematician
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
Marion J. Levy Jr. (1918–2002) American sociologist
Marion J. Levy Jr., cited in: Frances Carol Locher, Ann Evory (1978), Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers. p. 371
“O death that dividest brothers knit together in love, how cruel, how ruthless you are so to sunder them!”
O mors quae fratres dividis, et amore societos, crudelis ac dura dissocias.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 60; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm <br class="br">Letters
Robin Sloan (1979) American writer
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), Chapter 16 “Codex Vitae” (p. 141)
“All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.”
Eli Siegel (1902–1978) Latvian-American poet, philosopher
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Sabriel (1995), p. 216.
