What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723
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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. 1950How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardIf my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945