Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943
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We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886