The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019
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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BC