Marxists Archive Quotes

#1. The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

Xenophanes

#2. When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

Rachel Bilson

#3. Spaghetti is love.

Mario Batali

#4. A sunset is the story of the world's day.

Don DeLillo

#5. I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

Andrew Bird

#6. My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Phyllis Diller

#7. Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.

Teju Cole

#8. The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.

Charles Yu

#9. You'd think you'd been singled out of all the women in the world for this crowning indignity." "What if I do!" she cried angrily. "It isn't an indignity for them. It's their one excuse for living. It's the one thing they're good for. It is an indignity for me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. [H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

Steve Hagen