#elf

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dangerous #dangerous thing #good #himself #inwardly

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#i #me #myself #playing #she

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #i #idiot #member #myself

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#behind #certain #certain point #did #glad

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#beautifully #because #expressed #find #i

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certainly #contents #does #fit #fits

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#birthday #bitter #creator #creatures #divides