For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000
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One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996