Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardEvery memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927