Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892
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To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984I 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, 1929Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCA lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918