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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCOurs is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732