Miscellaneous quotes
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W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 306- W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Razor’s Edge (1943)
How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
Terence McKenna1946–2000Psychedelic Society (1984)Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead1901–1978Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53We’re all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby DickAll men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Prejudices, Second Series (1920) Ch. 1
