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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. ↗

— Orson Welles

#age #class #enemy #life #middle

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. ↗

— Orson Welles

#careful #feel #i #i feel #lose

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. ↗

— Orson Welles

#hate #human #human nature #nature #race

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. ↗

— Orson Welles

#christmas #christmas tree #come #died #fall

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#discreet #mysterious #render #things #unnecessary

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#about #arts #because #business #degrees

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#am #hate #i #i am #internet

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#beat #best #best way #capture #excitement

Teaching is the royal road to learning. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#road #royal #royal road #teaching

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. ↗

— Bryan White

#act #grow #grow up #how #learn