#cons

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #conscious #first #go #guess

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #characteristics #different #extremely #fair

Do not consider painful what is good for you. ↗

— Euripides

#good #painful #you

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. ↗

— Euripides

#called #console #critical #critical time #deeds

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work. ↗

— Jim Evans

#enjoy #find #i #learned #lesson

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark. ↗

— Tim Burton

#consider #dark #i #i am #myself

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#effect #gigs #had #i #icons

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.' ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#because #begged #child #condition #constituency

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#away #citizens #class citizens #constitution #decent

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#gay #humour #i #i love #icons