Quotes of the day, September 18

  • What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle
  • September 22

  • If it doesn't burn a little then what's the point of playing with fire?
  • September 21

  • One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
    Wes Anderson
    Wes Anderson
  • September 20

  • Mr. Hunt was in sympathy with the methods we ourselves were in the habit of using when we painted butterflies and seaweeds, placing perfectly pure pigments side by side, without any nonsense about chiaroscuro.
    Edmund Gosse
    Edmund Gosse
  • September 19

  • Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel de Cervantes
  • September 18

  • ...at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.
    Bernadette Roberts
    Bernadette Roberts
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