I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCI was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886