We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC
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Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCIf 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, 1945