The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69A false report rides post.
—English proverbAn ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BC