„To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein’s which I have ever been able to understand, “It is wonderful how I am not interested.”“

— Dorothy Parker

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„I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost… but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouthother poets. I want someone to mouth me.“
— Sylvia Plath
„I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. If I am black, it is not the result of a curse, but it is because, having offered my skin, I have been anle to absorb all the cosmic efflucia.“
— Frantz Fanon
„In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.“
— Albert Einstein