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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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
-- 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
In art, as in no other form of endeavor, there is meaning apart from success.
-- Joseph Conrad
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
"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
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
-- Francais Bacon
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
-- Anatole France
I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
-- Josephine Baker
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
-- Frank Zappa
Art may imitate life but life imitates TV.
-- Ani Difranco
"I've got better things to do than survive"
-- Ani Difranco
"Censorship is an excuse to talk about sex."
-- Fran Lebowitz
"A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us."
-- Franz Kafka
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Franz Kafka
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
-- Fran Lebowitz
"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
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
-- Ani Difranco
"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
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)
Experience allows you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- Franklin P. Jones
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)
Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun.
-- Ani Difranco
"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz ("Social Studies")
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-- Ben Franklin
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile."
-- Franklin P. Jones
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
-- Ani Difranco
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
-- Frank Herbert
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
-- Franklin P. Jones
"Whenever I say something they find hard to hear /
they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear."
-- Ani Difranco (Pretty Girl)
"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense."
-- Benjamin Franklin