Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995
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If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCNever trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCWho sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCWe seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCFlesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbThe thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940