When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80