The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941
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In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCA frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972