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New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

It 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. 1890

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1928

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?

—Andy Warhol, 1963

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

—Jean Genet, 1949

Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Under 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