There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963
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Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCPower is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCA large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940