Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963
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Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbSurvivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996