It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000
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Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715