Humility Is Not A Virtue In A

My Experience Has Been That People Who Die For Causes Have Few Friends In Death.

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.

Neither Our Own Passing Nor The Passing Of An Era Is A Tragedy, No Matter How Much We Would Like To Think It Is.

And Like Most Middle-aged People Who Hear The Clock Ticking In Their Lives, I Had Come To Resent A Waste Or Theft Of My Time That Was Greater Than Any Theft Of My Goods Or Money.

I Sometimes Subscribe To The Belief That All Historical Events Occur Simultaneously, Like A Dream In The Mind Of God. Perhaps It Is Only Man Who Views Time Sequentially And Tries To Impose A Solar Calendar Upon It. What If Other People, Both Dead And Unborn, Are Living Out Their Lives In The Same Space We Occupy, Without Our Knowledge Or Consent?" The Glass Rainbow, P. 138