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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

"Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.107, Penguin UK

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.