Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945
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It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleFame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCWhen nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825