#attributed

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#intellectualism #sex

FICTION IS MY ADDICTION!! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#addiction

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#artist #attributed #being #different #entire

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#misattributed-to-j-k-rowling #equality

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. ↗

— Alan Moore

#equality #government #misattributed #equality

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#cry #crying #experience #happiness #joy

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ↗

— Maurice Switzer

#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#change #clear #did #films #flower

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. ↗

— John Barth

#attributed #everything #intrinsically #itself #nothing