I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999
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The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCAttacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650