As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994
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Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCIf they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513