We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCThe only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695