"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Woolf, Virginia on feminism
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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Woolf, Virginia on age and aging
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"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."

Woolf, Virginia on crowds   

"The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together."

Wynn, Mychal on crowds   

"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

Cocteau, Jean on reality   

"Life is a horizontal fall."

Cocteau, Jean on life
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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets
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"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."

Bellow, Saul on oppression   

"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves."

Fadiman, Clifton on writers and writing   

"Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."

Kovacs on vision
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"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive."

James, Clive on worry
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"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."

Woolf, Virginia on banality
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