#ect

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#necessary #nothing #pursuit #rejection #step

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him. ↗

— Jill Bennett

#attack #club #direction #even #him

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#book-collecting #poetry #temptation

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep ↗

— Albert Camus

#lecture #philosophy #sleep #sleep

No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together. ↗

— Paul Auster

#blame

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#discovery #fiction #mystery #overdetermination #perfection

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#lifelong-learning #intellect

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. ↗

— Norton Juster

#storytelling #intellect

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself. ↗

— Rumi

#intellect

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later ↗

— Bono

#u #intellect