Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995
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The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987