#bi

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ↗

— Stendhal

#often #pleasure #spoiled

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ↗

— Stendhal

#first #historian #invent #qualification

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#art #credit #else #getting #hits

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. ↗

— George Stephen

#changed #first #i #outline #quite

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#having #rare #survive #talent #to survive

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#aware #brain #come #human #human brain

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#golden #i #little #little bit #more

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#biography #impossible #matter #objectivity #perfect