Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935
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There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCI reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The Bible