Wit & Wisdom
From Thomas Mann, Margaret Atwood, Francis Bacon, and more
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
Thomas Mann, quoted in Forbes
“A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.”
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Margaret Atwood, quoted in the Johannesburg Times
“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
Francis Bacon, quoted in the Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
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James Baldwin, quoted in the Associated Press
“Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”
Paulo Coelho, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers, quoted in the Orlando Sentinel
“The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.”
Playwright Joe Orton, quoted in The New Yorker
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