There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931
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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCMaking a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837