Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975The 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, 1971Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128