"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

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“By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.”

“I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.”

“Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!”

“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.”

“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”

“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”

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"All the greats respected him the most. ... Common actually stayed with him in his last days -- they both stayed in L.A. together -- and we would go over there when we were working on the album. And I …"

— J Dilla

Music1974–2006

#friendship

"Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence."

— Stobaeus

Literature430–470

#language

"The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that strives to link itself to some oth…"

— William Hazlitt

Literature1778–1830

#courage

"Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. …"

— Alexandra Kollontai

Politics1872–1952

#life