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None among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fuller

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Fuller, Margaret. "The Great Lawsuit - Man versus Men: Woman versus Women." The Dial, July 1843.

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Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Dover Publications, 1999.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John

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Shakespeare, William. "The Life and Death of King John." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "King John." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

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Gift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Ellice Hopkins

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Hopkins, Jane Ellice. Work Amongst Working Men. Strahan and Company, 1879, ch. 4.

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Necessity is the mother of invention.

Richard Franck

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Franck, Richard. Northern Memoirs: Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. London: Henry Mortclock, 1694.

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Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."

A.A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh

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Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen/Dutton, 1926.

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Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2017.

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We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Brontë

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Brontë, Charlotte. "We wove a web in childhood." 1835.

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Brontë, Charlotte. "From 'Retrospection.'" Brontës: Selected Poems, edited by Pamela Norris. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.

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I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed; and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. c. June 1784.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland.

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy

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Belloy, Pierre-Laurent Buirette de. Le Siège de Calais. 1765, Comédie‐Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 3.

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The World in which we live and move
Outlasts aversion, outlasts love.
Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,
Remorse, grief, joy.

Matthew Arnold

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Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1849, I. 213.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 213.

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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims".

Susan Sontag

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Sontag, Susan. AIDS and its Metaphors. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989, ch. 1.

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A pistol let off at the ear, not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Charles Lamb

On puns.

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Lamb, Charles [published as Elia]. "Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best." The London Magazine, 1826.

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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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For you'll ne'er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause,
By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws.

Hannah More

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More, Hannah. An address to the meeting in Spa Fields. 1817, London, England, UK.

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It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett, Samuel. "Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett." Vogue, Dec. 1969.

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I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

George Sand

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Sand, George. Impressions et Souvenirs [Impressions and Remembrances]. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1873, ch. 8.

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!

William Blake

Jerusalem

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Blake, William. "To the Public." Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London, c. 1820.

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Blake, William. "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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That politician tops his part,
Who readily can lie with art.

John Gay

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Gay, John. "The Squire and his Cur." Fables. London: John Knapton, Paul Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738, pt. 2, I. 27.

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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Madamoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. 18 Mar. 1857.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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