3 December 2020 James Dickey The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
3 December 2020 Robert D. Kaplan The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
3 December 2020 Frederic Bastiat In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
3 December 2020 Larry Niven In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Phillips Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
3 December 2020 Richard Wagner Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
3 December 2020 Jack Kemp I learned about the market’s power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
3 December 2020 George Eliot I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
3 December 2020 Peter Abrahams With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz I never discuss a novel while I’m writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
3 December 2020 Howard Lindsay I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Edwards Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
3 December 2020 Pia Zadora But there’s not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There’s too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
