True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCA shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766