One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.