The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983
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Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherWhen man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983