The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbTraveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945