To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978
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A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999