#eat

The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was infinite, but it was also embedded in – if this was possible! – an even more infinite universe of all things to write about. It was like seeing the Grand Canyon from outer space – a huge gorge that looked like a thin trickle, impossible to miss, hard to hit. ↗

— Marcus Speh

#humanity #short-story #writer #writing-life #art

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. ↗

— El Lissitzky

#down #energy #energy source #expression #heavens

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#bad guys #beat #boxing #boxing match #cowboy

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#ever #gave #man #me #old

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#artist #creativity #hope #inspiration #art

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. ↗

— John Locke

#depths #fathom #great #his #know

I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy. ↗

— Kelly LeBrock

#eating #else #everyone #happy #i

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. ↗

— Jim Leach

#greater #i #i do #little #optimism

You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em. ↗

— Peggy Lee

#beatles #join #you

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#gratitude #death