Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008
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Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbWhen poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969