#attic

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? ↗

— Harper Lee

#empathy #judgement #judgement

Oh, I know. They’re dwarfs pretending to be elves. No, they’re not dwarfs either. Okay, okay, they’re “little people,” I’m sorry! Can’t believe I have to be politically correct when you’re the only one who can hear me. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#dog #humor #oberon #humor

I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#change

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#just #just one #keep #like #peculiar

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#attic #behind #book #copy #could

Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#cellar #hoarding #moving #storage #home

No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . It's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ↗

— Harper Lee

#change

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest JP court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal" - Atticus Finch ↗

— Harper Lee

#created-equal #equality

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#cellar #interesting #interesting stuff #real #stuff

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. ↗

— James Broughton

#built #eight #had #i #lantern