It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877
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There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbA fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbWhen a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbDance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936