There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956
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Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbI am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580