#eat

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#difficult #done #every #every night #everyday

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. ↗

— Mencius

#becomes #great #great man #greater #his

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ↗

— Herman Melville

#awful #beneath #gently #hidden #knows

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ↗

— Herman Melville

#grapple #hate #heart #hell #i

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. ↗

— Herman Melville

#great #man #never #somewhere #who

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ↗

— Mencius

#does #great #great man #his #lose

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #every #neat #plausible #problem

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ↗