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  • #1
    Oscar Levant
    “It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.”
    Oscar Levant

  • #2
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

  • #7
    Victor Hugo
    “So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #8
    E.M. Forster
    “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

  • #9
    “Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.”
    Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss

  • #10
    Michael Caine
    “...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
    Michael Caine

  • #11
    Desmond Tutu
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

    [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #12
    John   Newton
    “[ ... ]when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[....]”
    John Newton

  • #13
    John   Newton
    “I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”
    John Newton

  • #14
    John   Newton
    “The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our hands.”
    John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

  • #15
    John   Newton
    “What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary—if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?”
    John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

  • #16
    John   Newton
    “We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.”
    John Newton, Letters of John Newton

  • #17
    John   Newton
    “Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.”
    John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

  • #18
    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #19
    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

  • #20
    E.M. Forster
    “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
    E.M. Forster, Howards End

  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #22
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #23
    Dorothy Parker
    “Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #24
    Dorothy Parker
    “When I was young and bold and strong,
    The right was right, the wrong was wrong.
    With plume on high and flag unfurled,
    I rode away to right the world.
    But now I’m old - and good and bad,
    Are woven in a crazy plaid.
    I sit and say the world is so,
    And wise is s/he who lets it go.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #25
    Dorothy Parker
    “Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Ladies of the Corridor

  • #26
    Dorothy Parker
    “I never see that prettiest thing-
    A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
    But what I think, "How gay 'twould be
    To hang me from a flowering tree.”
    Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep As A Well: Collected Poems

  • #27
    Dorothy Parker
    “Once, when I was young and true.
    Someone left me sad -
    Broke my brittle heart in two;
    And that is very bad.

    Love is for unlucky folk,
    Love is but a curse.
    Once there was a heart I broke;
    And that, I think, is worse.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #28
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    “If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth



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