A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852
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I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCEvery man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCA crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCLife’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC