"What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century"

-- Max Beerbohm

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“I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.497, University of Chicago Press
“Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.”
“Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural science and religion, 2 lectures”
“You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.”

Source : 1951 The Hour.
“You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.”
“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”

Source : "How We Know". Freeman Dyson's review of James Gleick's book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (2011), www.nybooks.com. March 10, 2011.
“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”
“But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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