Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987
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The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCWe never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953