All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949
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Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCAs bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCSome folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCOnce any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972