“I do not think altogether the worse of a book for having survived the author a generation or two. I have more confidence in the dead than the living.” — Hazlitt
Wendell Berry, interviewed in The New Yorker (July 14, 2019):
Well, part of manners used to be to say to somebody you just met, “Where you from?” And I quit asking it, because so many people say they’re from everywhere or nowhere.
Homer Watson (1855-1936), Figure on the Road and Farmhouse at Sunset