#ass

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#always #business #class #come #getting

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#faithful #fell #first #himself #love

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? ↗

— Jean Racine

#know #knowing #nothing #pass

The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#every #every time #go #goes #issue

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#should #those #tough #who #will

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#characteristics #decent #grateful #gratitude #happier

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#between #caused #cite #classes #common