Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959
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A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCI’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMisfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980