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“It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.”
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“I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.”
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“Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.”
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“Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.”
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“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”
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“Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.”
Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation
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“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
Source : "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.
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“Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.”
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“History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.”
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“Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.”
