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Historians

By Wayne Mackeson

“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers are to heroin-addicts.”

— Eric Hobsbawm (historian)

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Altered States

By Wayne Mackeson

“A paranoid is someone who know’s a little of what’s going on. A psychotic is a guy who’s just found out what’s going on.” — William S. Burroughs

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Poetry

By Wayne Mackeson

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

— Raymond Chandler

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Words

By Wayne Mackeson

“All words, even those misspoken, tell you something.”

— Wayne Mackeson

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Being Alive

By Wayne Mackeson

“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
— Joseph Campbell

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Even as the Clouds Gather

By Wayne Mackeson

“Everybody should come here. Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled, and yet at the same time, beautiful and awesome the world can be. Everyone should experience, even as the clouds gather, what’s at stake, what could be lost, what’s still here.”
— Anthony Bourdain

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The Real World

By Wayne Mackeson

“There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.”
— Saul Leiter (1923-2013)

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Control

By Wayne Mackeson

“You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

— James Madison, Federalist No. 51 (1788)

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Signs & Symbols

By Wayne Mackeson

“I’ve only ever been afraid of signs and symbols, never of people and things.”
— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (1934)

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Grief

By Wayne Mackeson

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars … .”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)

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The Arc of the Moral Universe

By Wayne Mackeson

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I can see I am sure it bends toward justice.”

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The Soul

By Wayne Mackeson

”The soul never thinks without a picture.”
— Aristotle, On the Soul (350 BC)

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The Job of a Criminal Defense Lawyer

By Wayne Mackeson

“The job of a criminal defense lawyer is to remind people of what they have chosen to misremember.”

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Time

By Wayne Mackeson

“History puts a saint in every dream.”

— Tom Waits, Time (1985)

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The Cowboy Angel Rides

By Wayne Mackeson

“of war and peace the truth just twists its curfew gull just glides; upon four-legged forest clouds, the cowboy angel rides … .”

— Bob Dylan, Gates of Eden (1965)

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Coming & Going

By Wayne Mackeson

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (2004)

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Extravagance

By Wayne Mackeson

“Extravagance is complete silence.”

— Arata Isozaki

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Out On The Run Tonight

By Wayne Mackeson

“The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive; everybody’s out on the run tonight, but there’s no place left to hide.”

— Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (1974)

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Aloneness

By Wayne Mackeson

“Aloneness is a state of being whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor.”

 — Townes van Zandt

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Writers

By Wayne Mackeson

“Writers are always selling someone out.”

— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)

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  • "In a gun fight, you need
    to take your time in a hurry."

    ~ Wyatt Earp

     

    Wayne Mackeson

    wayne@waynemackeson.com
    503-329-3418

     

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    Oregon City, OR 97045


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    “Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.”

    ~ Joe Louis