#ali

Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenia un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme. Una tremenda congoje fue para mí lo único real en aquellos momentos. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#coming-of-age #existentialism #laforet #nada #spanish-civil-war

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.' ↗

— Brad Holland

#believe #described #event #how #just

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#chair #covered #doctor #done #face

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#economic #economic prosperity #education #inexorably #linked

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#educated #father #german #had #host

good dreams can be inspirations to bring in to make reality fantastic enough to share ↗

— Jay Woodman

#fantastic #inspiration #reality #sharing #dreams

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#age #australian #band #brothers #bunch

It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know? ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#crush #feels #know #like #nice

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. ↗

— Max Jacob

#endowed #enough #give #illusion #reality

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. ↗

— Janis Ian

#day #end #end of the day #get #go