“I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
–Robert Frost, “Birches”
(despite all the hate, greed, selfishness, meanness, cruelty, violence, war, prejudice, discrimination, evil, division, paranoia, stupidity, ignorance. corruption, atrocities, depravity, and man’s “heart of darkness”.)
“Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
–Joseph Conrad
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
–Walt Kelly
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Ringo Starr always talks of peace and love. Those are still the only ways to freedom, peace, hope, and salvation.
“All you need is love.”
–Lennon and McCartney
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Canadian critic Northrop Frye divided literature and life into “anxiety dream” and “wish fulfillment”.
That about sums everything up, methinks.
That and Hamet’s “paragon of animals”/”quintessence of dust” speech.