“I was always a sucker for anything in miniature” - Lionel Shriver

“The real danger is assuming that because you haven’t had a problem yet, you won’t have one soon” - G. Scott Graham, Early Warning Signals

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity” - Simone Weil

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations” - James Madison

“What nourishes me, destroys me” - translation of the phrase– “Quod me alit, me extinguit”– found on the portrait of Marlowe above (at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)

“From the Romans to the Enlightenment, the Latin analogy “ut pictura poesis” (as is painting so is poetry) was used by philosophers to suggest a parallel between literature and the fine arts, between visual and verbal modes of communication.” -Robert J. Bezucha

“Metaphors and similes (puns, too, I might add) extend the dimensions and expand the possibilities of the world” - Tom Robbins, Wild Ducks Flying Backwards

“If I only had a brain” - “the Scarecrow” in The Wizard of Oz

“Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.” - John Lennard, The Poetry Handbook

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly” - Montaigne

“Photography helps people to see” - Berenice Abbott

“Walking is man’s best medicine” - Hippocrates

“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation” - Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“False confidence often leads to disaster” - Aesop

“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Down with all kings but King Ludd!” - Lord Byron

“The tale is old as the Eden Tree – as new as the new-cut tooth – For each man knows ere his lip-thatch grows he is master of Art and Truth.” - Rudyard Kipling “The Conundrum of the Workshops” (quoted by Orson Welles in his remarkable film F for Fake)

“The sound must seem an echo to the sense” - Alexander Pope

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