“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.” PeopleGivingDoeMemoriesExistenceQuietDinnerExcitementDullRecurringUnemotionalPalimpsestRemote Places Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.” BelieveSaidProcessWaterNaturalSimpleHolyQuietMassCriticalIntellectDullBlessHoly Water Author:Blaise Pascal