#doe

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#doing #hit #i #last #love

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#alive #author #before #characters #does

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#child #constituency #does #exist #politician

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#because #by the time #concert #died #does

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. ↗

— Max Planck

#die #does #gradually #happen #important

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? ↗

— Robert Plant

#communicate #does #fulfilled #ideal #laughter

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. ↗

— Plato

#friend #his #love #return #who

The measure of a man is what he does with power. ↗

— Plato

#man #measure #measure of a man #power