#begins

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

Pleasure died forty years ago in America, perhaps further back, in a wave of carbon monoxide, gasoline, cigarettes for dames, the belief in everything and everybody, tolerance for the intolerable, the hatred of being alone in silence for more than twenty seconds, the assurance that immortality was Americans eating all-cow franks, with speeded-up peristalsis while talking to a crowd of fifteen trillion other same-bodies eating sandwiches, gassing cokes, peristalsing, and talking, while baseball-sound-movie-TV tomorrow's trots off track betting howled roared farted choked gagged exploded reentered atmo honked bawled deafened pawed puked croaked shouted repeated repeated REPEATED, especially SAY IT AGAIN LOUDER SAY IT AGAIN, stick that product in every God-damned American's mouth and make him say I BOUGHT IT, GOD I BOUGHT IT AND IT'S GREAT IT's HOLLYWOOD IT'S MY ARSE GOING UP AND DOWN AGAIN, IT'S USA, GOD, and if you can't get it in his mouth and make him SWEAR IT SWEAR IT USA, stick it in his anal sphincter (look it up in the dictionary, college graduates, on account of you didn't have time to learn it in the College of Your Choice). ↗

— James Purdy

#movies

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#aspect #beauty #begins #character #deeper

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#begins #constant #each #else #laugh

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#journey #miles #step #thousand #thousand miles

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#begins #decided #decisions #entirely #healthier

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#come #continue #euphoric #gets #hook

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#begins #home #quest #school #workplace

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. ↗

— John Ciardi

#any #begins #concern #concerns #down