On the stairs...

On the stairs the furtive shadows pass of all those who were there one day.  - Georges Perec, Life: A User’s Manual

Name that Greek Poet

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. – Aldous Huxley

We truck in the real

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. - Edward St. John Gorey

 

 

 

For every thing...

So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables me to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. – Ben Franklin

Theirs is to win, if it kills them/ they're just humans with wives and children
Race for the Prize - Flaming Lips

But if we had the information, we might have to think for ourselves.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people. – Former US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 

[bolded words mine]

 

We are history's little soldiers

I on the other hand am walking through a larch wood and every step I take is history... Perhaps I don’t do any great things, but history is made up of little anonymous gestures; I may die to-morrow even before that German, but everything I do before dying and my death too will be little parts of history, and all the thoughts I’m having now will influence my history to-morrow, tomorrow’s history of the human race.
- Italo Calvino, The Path to the Nest of Spiders