A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977
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I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestMen have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCYou shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC