ephemeral quotes

He must teach himself that the basest of all things isto be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop foranything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomedlove and honour and pityand compassion and sacrifice.

-William Harrison Faulkner
  Nobel prize acceptance speech.

I am not interested in the ephemeralsuch subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  In the NewYorkTimes, 6 Mar.