Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936