Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986
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For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCAccording to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843