#eva

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives. ↗

— Brian Moore

#always #annually #boulevard #coming #continent

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions. ↗

— Esai Morales

#because #being #day #end #end of the day

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#friendship #level #love #mutual

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#always #bad #early #how #me

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#breaking #breaking up #came #cost #effectiveness

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#collapse #confidence #corporate #corporate america #devastating

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#bad #evasion #good #humor #reality

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#changes #delhi #during #flicker #i