There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963
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Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689