#am

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#background #cane #cut #forebears #i

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. ↗

— Nick Webb

#judgment #labels #nick-webb #personality #wish-you-were-here

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#game #god #hands #life #life

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#professor-phelps #william-lyon-phelps #wisdom #life

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#champagne #lobster #picnics #life

Life takes its toll and your insecurities become who you are. ↗

— Elizabeth Ringrose

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Balla come se nessuno stesse guardando, ama come se nessuno ti avesse mai ferito, canta come se nessuno stesse ascoltando, vivi come se il paradiso fosse sulla terra. ↗

— William W. Purkey

#life #paradiso #terra #life

weren't we all the same as children?" eiko asked. "all of us, destined to become beautiful brides in fluffy white dresses!" she giggled to herself. "where did we go wrong?" isn't that what keeps life interesting?" i replied. "and who knows? next year you could be somebody's wife. no one knows what will happen." sometimes i think it would be wonderful just to stay the way i am forever, just kick back and space out during the afternoon thinking about all the exciting things that the night will bring, all the naughty things i might take part in." she snickered again. well," i said, "aren't you the happy one." she squinted her tiny nose and laughed. dawn was breaking as we said good-bye. i saw her off by watching her small body disappear into the background, her high heels clapping along, echoing in the early morning city. my drunkenness, the sunrise, the bright sky, and a friend who was leaving. if i had died in my fall i would have missed that morning - that splendid sunrise over tokyo. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#beauty

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. ↗

— Dale Turner

#age

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this ↗

— David Mamet

#charlie-rose-show #drama #lies #play #life