Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944
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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbOne religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCWar is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939