Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975
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Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCRewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCAttacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975