#are

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reads #studies #will #world

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#america #been #certain #commitment #commitments

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#down #each #other #should #take

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#being #career #fun #i #job

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#american #been #china #first #incredible

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love. ↗

— Ina Garten

#better #cared #cook #cooking #created

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#believe #believe in yourself #day #enough #first

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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