One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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