#end

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#fantasy #helplessness #hope #persistence #surrender

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. ↗

— Margaret Chittenden

#chittenden #crazy #margaret #room #writers

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark. ↗

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

#real #relationships #language

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death #end #enough #far #keep

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#being #criticism #endure #final #final proof

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#graff #killing #space #winning

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ↗

— Anatole France

#lending #library #library

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#hendrick-van-loon #ignorance #society #willful-ignorance #education

I wasn't aware that was how I felt, either, until it was out. And now that I've said it like that, I'm not exactly sure it is how I feel. But this isn't a piece of paper I can crumple up and throw away. they aren't words I can cross out to start over. Now they're out, and I know they'll hang here, between us, maybe forever. ↗

— Terra Elan McVoy

#boys #college #divorce #firends #girls

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#friendship