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—Lionel Jospin, 1998
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—Laozi