Tuesday Afternoon Quotes

“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”

--Hermann Hesse

“Ghosts talking to us all the time — but we think their voices are our own thoughts.”

--David Foster Wallace

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

--H.L. Mencken