One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

Albert Camus

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Ivor Novello

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Samuel Johnson

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Samantha Morton

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

Paul Theroux

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Neil Gaiman

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Dennis Gabor

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

Haruki Murakami