A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCHang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCThe Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953