Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974
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Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665