Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940
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Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCThe march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
—Arthur Miller, 2001I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934