Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896There 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, 1920I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCRevolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891