#doors

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. ↗

— Perry Como

#day #doors #everything #fleeting #glass

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#environmental issues #i #issues #like #natural

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#blow #dealt #doors #few #fired

I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#be nice #doors #hold #i #i always

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ↗

— Alice Walker

#indoors #picnic #really #tea

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#certainly #deserve #doors #even #got

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. ↗

— Eminem

#doors #first #freedom #freedom of speech #i

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#because #day #desert #either #fool

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open. ↗

— Gene Ween

#doors #life #open #others #some