What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883
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Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833