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Life is not reassuring... Literature and art are not required to reassure when in reality there is no reassurance
Arthur Miller

Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God, at the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language
Emerson

As three to six hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman
Samuel Johnson

They're stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set
William S. Burroughs

As the world grows smaller, so the minds of men grow smaller, more compact, and more empty
Raymond Chandler

The man who regards his past is a man who deserves to have no future to look forward to
Oscar Wilde