A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.
History is written by winners.
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer