Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Ideologies
For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man.
Michiko Kakutani, NYT book critic
- On Memoirs
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusions that candor, daring, and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
PathalogicalBeauty
- Sentences with the entire alphabet in it (Pangram)
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. A boy, Max, felt quick during his hazy weaving jumps. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump. The five boxing wizards jump quickly. All questions asked by five watch experts amazed the judge. A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats.
