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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
January 20, 2026
The demand that stories must be “about” something is from Communist thinking and, further back, from religious thinking, with its desire for self-improvement books as simple-minded as the messages on samplers.
Doris Lessing
January 19, 2026
It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry Pratchett
January 18, 2026
The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing.
Thomas Szasz
January 17, 2026
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Marcel Proust
January 16, 2026
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Robert Heinlein
January 15, 2026
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
January 14, 2026
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Paul Valéry
January 13, 2026
Sense is never common.
Robert Heinlein
January 12, 2026
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
January 11, 2026
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