#appear

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#difficulties #disappear #half #i #imaginary

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. ↗

— Paul de Man

#certain #critical #denies #even #literary

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#appeared #company #dying #intimately #irishmen

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. ↗

— Mary McGrory

#appearance #courtroom #generation #grow #hair

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

#behaviour #cannot #characters #history #i

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. ↗

— James Callaghan

#consistent #leader #mean

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#appeared #books #both #commercially #complete

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#attack #basically #because #being #catty

She was making great money at personal appearances. ↗

— David Gest

#great #making #money #personal #personal appearances