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—Andy Warhol, 1975
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885