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Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin1924–1987“As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in The New York Times Book Review (January 14, 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan
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‘Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.’
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes1915–1980Mythologies (1957), “Le monde où l’on catche”
- Entertainment
When you’re through changing, you’re through.
Bruce Fairchild Barton1886–1967
- Change
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Often credited to Dr. Seuss
It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919“Julius Caesar: An Appreciation of the Hollywood Production” in The Mercury (15 June 1916)
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Murphy (1938), Part I (p. 1)
To restore silence is the role of objects.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Molloy (1951)
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989The Unnamable (1954)
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow1915–2005Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) [Penguin Classics, 2004, ], p. 156
The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.
Saul Bellow1915–2005“A Second Half Life” (1991), p. 326
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley1889–1945
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Long-Legged House (1969)
To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment” in The Country of Marriage (1973)
If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 14.
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