Postcards Today

Bailey’s Photographers, Bournemouth, England.

On the Existence of Hell

“Nowhere does hate bring happiness;  nowhere does self-seeking satisfy, wrong triumph, or falsehood bless. Hell, then, is potentially everywhere; that is, it will manifest itself wherever wrong, sin, discord, selfishness, exist; will begin to show itself precisely at the same moment that they show themselves.”

— The Rev. Samuel Calthrop, “Heaven and Hell” in Unitarian Affirmations (1882)

Terribly Important

“At about five o’clock in the afternoon, Truman and I would go into town to do the marketing. He would get the mail, which was terribly important to him, and we would sit in a bar on the piazza and read.”

— Pearl Kazin Bell, in Truman Capote (1998) by George Plimpton