#ak

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#big #bottles #breakfast #coffee #cream

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#book writing #business #horse #horse racing #like

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#before #comes #football #going #here

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#become #building #draw #frightening #lines

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#given #itself #power #process #taken

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#dealers #left #make #new #washington

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #exalted #i #i am #image

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love