The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949