After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950
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Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCLike a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCWhen I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947