#ali

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#been #gone #i #just #kind

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley.... ↗

— Jean Genet

#home

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. ↗

— Larry Wall

#change #determinism #fatalism #free-will #change

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. ↗

— Claude McKay

#cannot #faithful #his #individuality #loyal

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #healing #health #life #loneliness

The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

#approached #casual #casually #did #different

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. ↗

— Mack McLarty

#house #italian #machiavelli #needs #original

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#always #ask #bedroom #did #ever

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#form #inevitability #melody #must #our