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Fri, 25 Aug 2006

I like quotes. Spend time searching for them occasionally.

There was a guy named Dalton Trumbo. Extraordinary wordsmith. Brilliant screenwriter. Good example of the best that humanity can offer.

His Life was ruined by the McCarthy hearings and the House Unamerican Activities Committee back in the Fifties.

So, I ran across this excerpt of an early seventies interview. This is the guy conversing, not writing:

Some suffered less than others, some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things he did not want to say, to do things he did not want to, to deliver and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none of us - right, left, or center - emerged from that long nightmare without sin.

For what my opinion is worth, that statement seems to be the most concise, poetic, and succinct summary of the human condition that I have ever seen.

Go now and be excellent to each other, my human family.

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