THE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING

Person holding a book titled 'The Strength in Our Scars' in front of a wall of open books.

“News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.”

— Katharine Graham

“He’s not a performer, he’s a prisoner!”

The Truman show

Illustration of a brown leaf with multiple oval leaflets on a dark background.
An outdoor scene of a cobblestone street at dusk with a small restaurant or bar entrance, illuminated from within, with chairs and a folded umbrella outside, and a bicycle leaning against a wall in the background.

“I had the feeling as in a nightmare of it all being something repeated, something I had been through and that now I must go through it again.”

- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises

Dirty wooden floor inside a rustic cafe or bar with dark wooden tables and chairs, some of which are overturned or placed upside down on the tables.

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

- William Shakespeare

Close-up of antique, ornate leather-bound books on a shelf, with gilded titles and intricate gold embossing.

In satura veritas

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

— Tom Stoppard

A wooden chair with ballet slippers hanging from the top left corner of the backrest and a sheer, light-colored fabric draped over the right side of the backrest.

“Razors pain you;

Rivers are damp;

Acids stain you;

And drugs cause cramp.

Guns aren’t lawful;

Nooses give;

Gas smells awful;

You might as well live.”

- Dorothy Parker: Résumé