Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885
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Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCIt is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90