I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915
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Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborThe newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778