Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)
Steve Perry book The Man Who Never Missed
Source: The Man Who Never Missed (1985), Chapter 14 (p. 124)
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“What in God’s name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?”
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
continuity (42) “And Say Which Seed Will Grow“
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I felt that night, on the stage, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? (p. 145)