When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCThe civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950