Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940
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A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCWhen arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherJournalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988