“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.” LeftLanguageDecentPassagesObscurityChasteObscenity Book:The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions Source: The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions
“I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.” WellsJobsCoursesLeftStudyTalentCollegePeriodsDramaDancingDecentMaskDroppingAnthropologyDropping Out Author:Elizabeth Hand
“I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.” WorldMindPersonsNextLeftEffortToo MuchAffairConvictionMortalsImmortalityDecentImmortalPeace Of MindAfterlifeDefiniteAssurance Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography