#disco

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ↗

— Noel Coward

#discouraging #few #honesty #how #many

You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#discord #girls #self #three #race

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible. ↗

— Max Cannon

#cause #comfortable #discomfort #else #going

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#going #i #i think #joy #movies

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#existed #knew #know #learn #never

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#delight #did #discovered #goes #great

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. ↗

— John Cheever

#discover #life #make #need #sense

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#hard #i #i think #owls #shocking

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #because #could #desire #discoveries