My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves
I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.
God bless the Reference Librarians
Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.