There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840