August 24, 2012 JMRL Blog ‘I always liked to think he made me and all of us better than we were. He was just about the smartest man I ever met.’—Liz Smith about Gore Vidal
July 24, 2012 JMRL Blog “What did these small things mean? Why does touch matter? And what survives?” — Edmund de Waal
June 30, 2012 JMRL Blog “The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.” – Dawn Fraser (Australian swimmer, 3-time winner at the Olympics)
June 22, 2012 JMRL Blog “I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.” Reynolds Price
May 19, 2012 JMRL Blog “However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
April 19, 2012 JMRL Blog “A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.” ― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book