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—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670