Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Prologue
Jacques le Fataliste (1796)
Source: Song lyrics
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Prologue
Jacques le Fataliste (1796)
Imbolo Mbue (1982) Cameroonian writer
On why she wrote Behold the Dreamers in “Imbolo Mbue on Empathy and the Price of the American Dream” https://lithub.com/imbolo-mbue-on-empathy-and-the-price-of-the-american-dream/ in Lit Hub (2017 Jun 1)
“I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
From Who Put The 'M' In Manchester? (2004)
In Concert
“What did I not do, where did I not go, to whom did I not bow.”
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
In Vinay Patrika quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 276
Maurice Davis (1921–1993) American rabbi
On Jim Jones, upon hearing of the mass murders and suicides of Jonestown, as quoted in "Cult Chief's Beginnings in Indianapolis Recalled" by James Feron, The New York Times (22 November 1978); in the early years of Jones' ministries, Davis had sold Jones a synagogue in Indianapolis within which Jones housed his first "People's Temple"; also quoted in "Masters and Slaves: The Tragedy of Jonestown", by Fanita English, M.S.W, in Idea, Vol.1, no.2 (1 September 1996) http://www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=7
“The Son of the widow
You raised from the dead…
Where did His soul go
When He died again?”
Son of a Widow, the final lines of the album.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
David Irving (1938) British writer and Holocaust denier
Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 119.
“A place where nobody dared to go
the love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu”
Jeff Lynne (1947) British rock musician
"Xanadu"
Xanadu (1980)
Context: A place where nobody dared to go
the love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu
And now, open your eyes and see
what we have made is real
We are in Xanadu
A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally
Xanadu