Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations
| The Walking Drum |
| L'Amour, Louis |
| Had I been a Christian, I would have undoubtedly have been considered
a heretic, for what the world has always needed is more heretics and less
authority. There can be no order or progress without discipline, but
authority can be quite different. Authority, in this world in which I
moved, implied belief in and acceptance of a dogma, and dogma is
invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition. The
radical ideas of today are often the conservative policies of tomorrow,
and dogma is left protesting by the wayside. [pp.~255-256.]
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. [p.~373] To survive? What is that? A mouse lives, a fly lives; one flees in terror, another lives in filth. They exist, they are, but do they live? To challenge the fates, that is living! To ride the storm, to live daringly, to live nobly, not wasting one's life in foolish, silly risks, or ruining the brain with too much wine, or with hashish! [p.~419] |