We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887
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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928