“ People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ”
the problems changed, but people were the same
~ Dorothy Gilman
Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity--births, widowhood, illnesses--and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one's death as well.
evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
