Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975