Quotes About Legacy

He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

But that was twenty years ago, and with the exception of EQMM (still indisputably the fountainhead of significant mystery fiction throughout the civilized world), most of the magazines I listed above are dead. Crumbling yellow pulp relics in my files, dropping brittle little triangles from page corners.

Er zeigte ihnen, dass ihre Unsterblichkeit verglichen mit seiner eigenen ein alberner Witz war.

AM went into my mind. He walked smoothly here and there, and looked with interest at all the pock marks he had created in one hundred and nine years.

Ich bin ein Jude, und wenn es etwas gibt, was Juden in ein bissel mehr als sechstausend Jahren gelernt haben, dann ist es, dass man Kompromisse eingehen muss, um es bis siebentausend zu schaffen.

In the end, I've done more good than evil. I've saved more than I've harmed. You are a sum of your life, not just one part. ~Myron Bolitar~

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.

One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

At eighty-four, I can only write the way I go on teaching, personally and passionately.

The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.

All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who believe that almost anyone wrote Shakespeare, except Shakespeare himself.

Clarissa Harlowe is a larger form than all the heroines of the Protestant will descended from her: Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, Anne Elliot; Hawthorne's Hester Prynne; George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke; Thomas Hardy's Sue Bridehead; Henry James's Isabel Archer, Milly Theale; D. H. Lawrence's Ursula Brangwen; E. M. Forster's Margaret Schlegel; and Virginia Woolf's Lily Briscoe.

It's a key responsibility of the leader, in any field of endeavor (athletic team, military, or business) to assure the successful continuity or ability of his organization to carry on should he die or become incapacitated. It's his duty to plan for such a contingency out of loyalty to his people and, if in a business endeavor, loyalty to his customers and, clients.

To Lincoln, words always mattered most. Newspaper stories lived but a single day, caricatures flamed into view and just as quickly faded, and even the most flattering photographs inevitably receded behind the thick covers of family albums. But words lived forever. Writing, Lincoln believed, was "the great invention of the world.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.