Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCThe earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997