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Think rich. Look poor.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

—P.D. James, 1992

Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.

—Lisel Mueller, 1996

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923

My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.

—Benito Mussolini, 1929

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.

—Hélène Cixous, 1976

Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.

—Honoré de Balzac, 1831