July 25, 2014 JMRL Blog “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
July 1, 2014 JMRL Blog “The mind and heart cannot be demobilised as quickly as the platoon. On the contrary, like a fiery furnace at white heat, it takes a considerable time to cool.”
March 17, 2014 JMRL Blog “If you want anything done right, you will have to see to it yourself every time.”
February 28, 2014 JMRL Blog “Izz, I’ve learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you’ve got to give up hope of ever changing your past.”
January 17, 2014 JMRL Blog “The world of sensible seasons had come undone.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
November 24, 2013 JMRL Blog “There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour … The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual.”
October 21, 2013 JMRL Blog “….the architect and planter, struggling against the moralist” : Discussing “Master of the Mountain”
July 10, 2013 JMRL Blog “…when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
May 21, 2013 JMRL Blog “He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach — that it makes no sense.”
April 30, 2013 JMRL Blog “Home, whether it be structure or familiar ground, is, finally, the identity that does not fade.”
March 27, 2013 JMRL Blog “It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.” Amy Tan