“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.” ThinkingLongLightEyeSportsEmotionHappenedFansHorrorWorshipBlindCupsFixedScareLong Ago Author:Boris Becker
“Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.” MenLongMadeMatterUsePoliticalTermPartyHappenedStrangeHonorAbuseCastsNobleThings HappenCeaseMade ItCherishSuspicionLong AgoPolitical PartiesAnother ManStrange Things Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long ago. We've lost true history. But if we are willing to tolerate the contradictions, and if we suffer through events rather than ticking them off, we may at least get closer to understanding what happened than if we grip the handrail of a carefully polished and reassuringly heroic narrative.” IfsWayMayLongBigsSufferingLostUnderstandingHappenedEventsWillingConfusionNarrativeContradictionHeroicTolerateLong AgoPolished Author:Nicholson Baker