Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941