Lance Morrow Quotes (10 quotations)
1. As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home. - Lance Morrow
2. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. - Lance Morrow
3. He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. - Lance Morrow
4. His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon. - Lance Morrow
5. In the pageant of unity [at the Democratic National Convention], one speaker after another recited a Whitmanesque litany of races and classes and minorities and interests and occupations-or unemployments. Some speakers, in fact, made the nation sound like an immense ingathering of victims-terrorized senior citizens, forsaken minorities, Dickensian children-warmed by the party's Frank Capra version of America: Say, it's a wonderful life! - Lance Morrow
6. Like robots suffering an obscure sorrow, they carried the casket of the new Unknown Soldier, the one from Vietnam. [It] was a different kind of war for the United States [in] a shattering time, a bomb that originated a world away and went off in the middle of the American mind. [Now] the prevailing note was one of acceptance and reconciliation, as if in burying the Unknown Soldier, the nation were also interring another measure of its residual bitterness. - Lance Morrow
7. Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. - Lance Morrow
8. The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. - Lance Morrow
9. The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. - Lance Morrow
10. Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. - Lance Morrow
2. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. - Lance Morrow
3. He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. - Lance Morrow
4. His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon. - Lance Morrow
5. In the pageant of unity [at the Democratic National Convention], one speaker after another recited a Whitmanesque litany of races and classes and minorities and interests and occupations-or unemployments. Some speakers, in fact, made the nation sound like an immense ingathering of victims-terrorized senior citizens, forsaken minorities, Dickensian children-warmed by the party's Frank Capra version of America: Say, it's a wonderful life! - Lance Morrow
6. Like robots suffering an obscure sorrow, they carried the casket of the new Unknown Soldier, the one from Vietnam. [It] was a different kind of war for the United States [in] a shattering time, a bomb that originated a world away and went off in the middle of the American mind. [Now] the prevailing note was one of acceptance and reconciliation, as if in burying the Unknown Soldier, the nation were also interring another measure of its residual bitterness. - Lance Morrow
7. Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. - Lance Morrow
8. The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. - Lance Morrow
9. The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. - Lance Morrow
10. Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. - Lance Morrow
