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All colors agree in the dark.
-- Francis Bacon
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
-- Francis Bacon
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
-- Joseph Stalin
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
"The drug user drowns in the same pool mystics swim in."
-- Joseph Campbell
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-- Francis Bacon
A friend should be someone you don't have to prove things to, and with whom you can be yourself, whatever that is. A friend is also someone who should be able to tell you you are being silly or brain-damaged or making poor decisions about something without you being upset and offended, like when the love of your life is taking you to the cleaners, and you are completely blind to it.
-- Joseph Francis
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
-- Joseph Campbell
In art, as in no other form of endeavor, there is meaning apart from success.
-- Joseph Conrad
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealing with men."
-- Joseph Conrad
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
-- Anatole France
I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
-- Josephine Baker
"Censorship is an excuse to talk about sex."
-- Fran Lebowitz
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
-- Francais Bacon
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
-- Fran Lebowitz
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
-- Anatole France
"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."
-- Joseph Weizenbaum
Art may imitate life but life imitates TV.
-- Ani Difranco
"I've got better things to do than survive"
-- Ani Difranco
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz ("Social Studies")
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
-- Anatole France
"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them."
-- Francois de La Rochefoucald
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
-- Ani Difranco
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues)
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
-- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld ("Maxims" 1665)
"A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us."
-- Franz Kafka
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
-- Frank Zappa
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Franz Kafka
Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun.
-- Ani Difranco
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
-- Ani Difranco