no one would give him a reference

 

on history

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

Irish Goodbye

A hasty exit made without saying farewells to anybody.

The Whale

 

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville [1819-1891], Moby Dick

caretaker

 Broke literary ground here.

Halley's Comet

 

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”

– Mark Twain [1835-1910]

first modernist

"Caravaggio [1571-1610] is the first artist in history whose paintings seem directly concerned with his own life. Ten years before Shakespeare invented Hamlet, Caravaggio painted Saint Francis in solitary dialogue with a skull. Caravaggio introduced soliloquy into painting at the same time that Shakespeare perfected it in drama."
- John T. Spike

but when life expectancy was 40

“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

whaling

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville

Klondike

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

pipe

"Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."

- Mark Twain

unk ungani

“I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."
- Mark Twain

"be better than yourself"

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

- William Faulkner

universalism

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro 2017 Nobel Laureate, Literature

be here now

“History is not was, it is.”
- William Faulkner

Opa

"Greeks don't fight like heroes; heroes fight like Greeks."
- Winston Churchill

shush

"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. "
- Thomas Hardy

modernist

"There are some stories which have to be retold by each generation."
- Virginia Woolf [1882-1941]

page one

The first pages of those books you always meant to read:

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain