Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935
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The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbIt costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our coconspirator, the sine qua non in all we do!
—Margaret Atwood, 2015But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976