Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945
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Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbThe twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395