#era

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. ↗

— Claire Danes

#dreamed #ever #how #more #problems

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#children #generation #heard #i #i think

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#literature #reading #literature

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#civilization #contempt #degree #drowned #felt

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#federal #federal government #government #just #modification

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#debts #dollars #economy #entire #entity

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#literature

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #fact #in fact #interaction #limited

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#batter #communist #deliberately #him #hit

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#church #closer #depressions #funerals #may