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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

—Billie Holiday, 1956

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

—Booth Tarkington, 1914

There is no crime without precedent. 

—Seneca the Younger, c. 60

All our enemies are mortal.

—Paul Valéry, 1942

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

—Stanisław Lem, 1961

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838

Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732

Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887