#ada

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#author #being #enough #good #i

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question. ↗

— Jack White

#answered #assumes #because #everybody #get

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

#australia #before #cambridge #could #eighteen

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it. ↗

— Charles Williams

#alter #certainly #did #does #eve

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

#assumption #book #characterizes #criticism #directed

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be. ↗

— Venus Williams

#become #easy #everything #having #i

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#children #dictatorship #easily #grown-ups #how

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canadian #concrete #confidence #evidence #expanding

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#based #canada #experience #force #labour