The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833