I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948
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You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCCelibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943