Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840
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There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCSecrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860