Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929