Early 21st Century Americans

The world is little, people are little, human life is little

By d’Jurnet Tarryall Productions

“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.”

Willa Cather

“The Old West had been settled by dreamers, great hearted adventurers who were impractical to the point of magnificence, courteous brotherhood, strong in attack but weak in defense, who could conquer but not hold”

Willa Cather

“You come at people with an open mind and yet you never fail to get them wrong.

You get them wrong when you're with them, or you tell someone about them and then get them wrong again.

That's how we know we are alive.

We are wrong .“

American Pastoral - Phillip Roth

“There are the things that are out in the open., and there are the things that are hidden.

The real world has more to do with what is hidden”

Saul Leiter

[We] need to match our ideals with reality.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“We know nothing about other people, and couldn’t care less; on the other hand, we expect them to know all there is to know about us. Our need to be understood is on a level with our reluctance to understand others. “

“Uncertain Glory”, Joan Sales

“We have to make room for the other people. It’s a wheel you get on. You go to the end, and someone else has the same opportunity to go to the end. And so on. And somebody else takes their place.”