I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531