Date: 1777
"The minds of the negroes are contracted; because slavery destroys all the springs of the soul."
preview | full record— Raynal, Guillaume Thomas (1713-1796)
Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1944; 2018
"My desk is the monument to my mind, and by the appearance of it, my mind must have intimate contact with garbage collectors."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Date: 1962
"Her mind was as full of religion as a night sky is full of things visible and invisible. She left the man and took his religion and became a nun in the course of time."
preview | full record— Spark, Muriel (1918-2006)
Date: December 12, 2014
"It is memories in the ether of our consciousness that last a lifetime, there for us to enjoy again and again."
preview | full record— Brooks, Arthur C. (b. 1964)
Date: February 18, 2017
"'He lives inside his head, where he runs the same continuous loop of conflict with people he turns into enemies for the purposes of his psychodrama,' says Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: May 12, 2018
"Our brains are so scrambled that it's starting to make sense that none of it makes sense."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)