#era

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

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#collections #facts #general #grinding #kind

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#failed #forced #miserably #now #president

We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#guys #lives #make #meant #our

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore. ↗

— Larry David

#anymore #been #enough #i #know

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers. ↗

— Kip Winger

#feel #general #i #need #producers

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics