The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793
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The 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, 1971Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCSo many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCI prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCWhat a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971