I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbYou shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962