Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920
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All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCReminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCI 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, 1984A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998