Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988
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Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963