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I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#characters #death #life #reading #death

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#resent #residents #states #telling #think

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#dealing #doing #fact #i #numbers

Any creator owes a debt to past creation. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#creation #creator #debt #owes #past

I couldn't have been more shocked if he pulled a pink elephant out of his ass! ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#elephant #humor #shock #death

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#democracies #dictatorships #hate #i #place

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#religion #weight #wings

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#does #falling #falling in love #find #here

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#feel #feel good #good #great #great music

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#art #both #dare #emotion #happen