There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933