As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994
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There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902