Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964
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Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Slang 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, 1859Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherBright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCI detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820There 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, 1921Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798