The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968
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I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCMusic is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941