Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916
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I never know quite when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. Or my daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, Is he sick? No, my wife says, he’s writing something.
—James Thurber, 1955Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbWith the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898