Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCCharity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952