Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.
Nazim Hikmet
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Nor any shoes that trod your roads FATIMA BHUTTO Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen i...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINI When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews o...
DAVID NOVAK Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I m...
NAZIM HIKMET And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
NAZIM HIKMET However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
NAZIM HIKMET The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sourc...
EAVAN BOLAND The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen...
EDWARD BELLAMY The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEIN The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
NORMAN MAILER The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety
NORMAN MAILER The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century ...
ANZIA YEZIERSKA The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ...
ERIC HOFFER until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and l...
RICHARD ROTHSTEIN Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
RUSH LIMBAUGH The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. DU BOIS The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W.E.B. DU BOIS If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be define...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!
LATOYA ALSTON Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's...
DON DELILLO Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europ...
JONATHAN GALASSI It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi...
FREEMAN DYSON Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democrati...
DINESH D'SOUZA The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was...
TOM BROKAW Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ...
ANGELA CARTER Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in ...
RUSSELL BAKER They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth centur...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Designed in 1959, the copper-clad dome is a great example of the more adventurous architectural feat...
IAN CAMPBELL Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
JILL LEPORE In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per...
E. L. DOCTOROW Two moral forces shaped how we think and live in this shining twentieth century: the Virgin, and the...
DEXTER PALMER Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
GREG EGAN A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natur...
PATRICIA LOVE In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per...
E. L. DOCTOROW My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-cent...
JOHN LAHR I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
WERNER HERZOG In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw...
DON DELILLO The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberat...
NORMAN MILLER Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time...
DEYTH BANGER Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that ...
RUDOLF STEINER The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific...
NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lo...
BUDD SCHULBERG Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw...
KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi...
ADAM SILVERA It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...
WALTER MOSLEY In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is ...
ERICH FROMM Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn...
HELEN REDDY My heart is in the theater, of course,
TOM ALDREDGE The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverbera...
NORMAN MAILER The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverbera...
NORMAN MAILER I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth...
CARYL RIVERS This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
A. L. ROWSE The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
GEORG TRAKL At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century,...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that o...
KENNETH SCOTT LATOURETTE Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not s...
MICHAEL ARLEN As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (wi...
GAIL CARRIGER Feast of Mark the Evangelist There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about t...
E. L. MASCALL Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want ...
DENNIS LEHANE I cannot tell you how many times a person assumed I voted for John Kerry in 2004. Most of the time, ...
MICHELE ZIPP What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century Americ...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subso...
HENRI BERGSON The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists an...
WILLIAM MACDONALD The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigerat...
TOM ROBBINS I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have ma...
BING CROSBY Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
TED NUGENT The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has t...
QUENTIN CRISP The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d...
ERIC HOFFER The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by de...
ERIC HOFFER He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too.
LEWIS CARROLL It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my p...
ROLLO MAY Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-cen...
JOHN UPDIKE Jobs represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth cent...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD