Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005
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Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbNight is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747