Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962
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When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984