Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911