#ali

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#reading #reality #escape

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. ↗

— Paul Stanley

#band #big #big enough #enough #great

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#night

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ↗

— Mae West

#sexuality #virtue #virtue

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#quality #virtue #virtue

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning #specialization #knowledge

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. ↗

— Gary Malone

#creationism #religion #religious-fundamentalism #science #stupidity

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#wynton-marsalis #musician

The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#carpenter #poem #walrus #walrus-and-the-carpenter #king