Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807
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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCTo call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961