New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838