Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918
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Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008