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I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693A passion for horses, players, and gladiators seems to be the epidemic folly of the times. The child receives it in his mother’s womb; he brings it with him into the world, and in a mind so possessed, what room for science, or any generous purpose?
—Tacitus, c. 100A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943