#ass

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#assets #certainly #effort #enhance #expect

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#break #deal #down #extremely #historical

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#british #enlightenment #half #off #own

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. ↗

— Lee Child

#fired #i #job #really #simple

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. ↗

— Diane Duane

#first #generation #grandchildren #introducing #now

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

I always think that I've embarrassed myself. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#embarrassed #i #i always #myself #think

I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#friends #grocery #hanging #hate #i

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. ↗

— Fairfax Cone

#aimed #always #another #anyone #audience

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#embarrassing #even #i #i tried #mediocre