#din

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. ↗

— Richard Powers

#i #journal #keep #past #quotes

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. ↗

— Richard Powers

#coding #computer #going #grad #i

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#amsterdam #avoiding #being #bell #concept

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#fashion #heading #important #me #where

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #even #friends #human #human suffering

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#between #caused #cite #classes #common

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #cards #certain #down #humane

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i