Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833
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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956