I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844
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The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCA hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCThe mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BC