There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008
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A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC