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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. — Sarah Vowell

If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point in history, they would have embarked on a quest to become immortals, like the gods. But they couldn't and the whole of humanity still can't and won't. — Mario Stinger

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice. — Andrei Makine

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. — Harold Bloom

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth! — David Berg

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining. — Patrick Murphy

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it. — Gabriel Iglesias

I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. ( ... ) — Wendy Froud

The experience of writing something in Java and then trying to figure out - I myself have trouble installing Java on my computer - it's horrible. — Peter Seibel

Compared with that of a great artist, the friendliness of a great nobleman, however charming it may be, seems like play-acting, like simulation. Saint-Loup sought to please; Elstir loved to give, to give himself. Everything he possessed, ideas, works, and the rest which he counted for far less, he would have given gladly to anyone who understood him. But, for lack of congenial company, he lived in an unsociable isolation which fashionable people call pose and ill-breeding, the authorities a recalcitrant spirit, his neighbours madness, his family selfishness and pride. — Marcel Proust

Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine. — Anthony Trollope

The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a subjugated plain, Among it's desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. — W. H. Auden