One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862