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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

—Flannery O’Connor, 1964

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

—John Camden Hotten, 1859

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

—Edward O. Wilson, 2009

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

—Theognis, c. 550 BC

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

—William Howard Taft, 1921

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

—Lord Byron, 1819

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798