I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390