Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972
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To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThey are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCI love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999