#den

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#complex #denser #each #first #got

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#comes #i #just #lick #love

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#creative #fighter #independent #little #must

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beauty #edge #evidence #high #high art

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#denying #existence #feminist #own #say

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#american president #applied #been #every #hanged

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#bush #cancel #congress #cover #days

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#confident #creatures #either #example #fairly

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#discovered #here #imagination #india #inexhaustible