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Archives - November 2001

November 1, 2001

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

– Oscar Wilde, THE CRITIC AS ARTIST

November 2, 2001

Laughter is a part of the human survival kit.

– David Nathan, THE LAUGHTERMAKERS

November 3, 2001

There are some things you learn better in calm and some in storm.

– Willa Cather, THE SONG OF THE LARK

November 4, 2001

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely to the eye.

– Sa'Di, GULISTAN

November 5, 2001

Grumbling is the death of love.

– Marlene Dietrich, MARLENE DIETRICH'S ABC

November 6, 2001

Life without faith is an arid business.

– Noel Coward, BLITHE SPIRIT

November 7, 2001

Pity is the least of the emotions.

– Tallulah Bankhead, TALLULAH

November 8, 2001

Style is being yourself, but on purpose.

– Quentin Crisp, HOW TO HAVE A LIFESTYLE

November 9, 2001

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

– Rita Mae Brown, STARTING FROM SCRATCH

November 10, 2001

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

– Susan Sontag, "Time Out"

November 11, 2001

Every day, people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

– Lenny Bruce, THE ESSENTIAL LENNY BRUCE

November 12, 2001

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

– Mark Twain, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

November 13, 2001

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

– Vicki Baum, GRAND HOTEL

November 14, 2001

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

– Golda Meir, L'EUROPEO

November 15, 2001

One can only believe, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

– Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO

November 16, 2001

Time bears all things away, even the mind.

– Virgil, ECOLOGUES

November 17, 2001

Travelers, like poets, are mostly an angry race.

– Sir Richard Burton, NARRATIVE OF A TRIP TO HARAR

November 18, 2001

Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.

– Publilis Syrus, SENTENCES

November 19, 2001

It is very necessary to have makers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

– Vita Sackville-West, COUNTRY NOTES

November 20, 2001

People only see what they are prepared to see.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, JOURNALS

November 21, 2001

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

– George Santayana, THE LIFE OF REASON

November 22, 2001

Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.

– Pascal, PENSEES

November 23, 2001

Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

– Elizabeth Bowen, COLLECTED IMPRESSIONS

November 24, 2001

The nature of bad news infects the teller.

– William Shakespeare, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

November 25, 2001

All men are creative but few are artists.

– Paul Goodman, GROWING UP ABSURD

November 26, 2001

Few men have been admired by their servants.

– Montaigne, ESSAYS

November 27, 2001

Solemnity is the shield of idiots.

– Montesquieu, PENSEES ET JUGEMENTS

November 28, 2001

Stretching out to catch stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.

– Jeremy Bentham, DEONTOLOGY

November 29, 2001

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

– Elsie de Wolfe, AFTER ALL

November 30, 2001

Good swiping is an art in itself.

– Jules Feiffer, ACKROYD