It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCDread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887