"What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name."

— Nicole Krauss

Literature1974

#humor

"Libya is an African country. May Allah help the Arabs and keep them away from us. We don't want anything to do with them. They did not fight with us against the Italians, and they did not fight with u…"

— Muammar Gaddafi

Politics1942–2011

#humor

"A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happens to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately."

— William Shenstone

Literature1714–1763

#humor

"And then the spring of '48 I toddled off to Paris on a Liberty ship.. .Yes, and arriving in Le Havre on that Liberty ship and seeing all those—the sun was coming up—and seeing all those ships sunk.. I…"

— Joan Mitchell

painting1925–1992

#freedom