The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019
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Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCGod is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbAn ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960