#ch

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? ↗

— William Badke

#information #information-literacy #students #teaching #change

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. ↗

— David Seabury

#character #good #humor #practice #requires

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. ↗

— Primo Levi

#beautiful #exchange #house #i #inside

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#conviction #greater #i #intellectual #known

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#going #him #however #man #probably

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier. ↗

— Tony Levin

#between #comfortable #famous #followers #i

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same. ↗

— James Levine

#both #childcare #housework #increased #last

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dying #pity #death