David Webb Peoples

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    It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does?
    —David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Gaff (Edward James Olmos)

    Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.
    —Mary Webb (1881–1927)

    It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.
    Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)