Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789
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If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912