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—Dylan Thomas, 1936
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933I’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. 90Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCIf my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCTelevision has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BC