Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857
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I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCMaking a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665