Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbDon’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982