Monday, December 11, 2006

Timid Living

I was struck by the following sentences from Radical Son by David Horowitz. He is describing his father, but they could have been written about me.

I came to see that my father's "no's" were a
language of self-preservation directed not so
much at me as at himself. Denial defined a
zone of safety
: nothing ventured, nothing lost."


1 comment:

  1. E M Forster has some insight on this as well in Howards End.

    Actual life is full of false cluse and sign-posts that lead nowhere. WITH INFINITE EFFORT WE NERVE OURSELVES FOR A CRISIS THAT NEVER COMES. The most successful career must show a wast of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful in that that of a man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

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