Scholars Alive

Famous quotes containing the words scholars and/or alive:

    “Statistics justify and scholars seize
    The salients of colonial policy.
    What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
    To savages, expendable as Jews?”
    —Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

    “The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he alive and real, and not dying and without truth.”
    —Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)