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Dan HennessyFinger Lakes Times |
Given that the recently concluded presidential election was the most negative, hostile, divisive, and un-presidential such event of my lifetime, and...
In some ways I can’t believe I’m 68 years old. When did that happen? In other ways, I feel 168 years old. Usually at the end of the day. Then...
“The work of memory collapses time.” — Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher, cultural critic, essayist I’ll never forget the day I...
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the...
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little...
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. ... In reading great literature I become a thousand men...
“You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” — C.S. Lewis to Walter Hooper, as told by Hooper in a lecture at...
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all...