Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCAfter each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879