#cover

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured. ↗

— Frederick William Borden

#hoped #nevertheless #recovery #slower #than

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #deadly #disease #ever #recovers

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish. ↗

— James Baldwin

#self-discovery

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#chance #disaster #discovery #each #fulfillment

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. ↗

— John Amos

#covering #gulf #i #large #mexico

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#discovered #good #i #later #lot

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#cedar #circular #covered #diameter #form

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? ↗

— David Baldacci

#discover #easily #time #truth #trying

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#genius #nation #proverbs #spirit #their

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animation #art #cycles #good #good art