I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BC