#ex

I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on her wrist. "So I had two sons, John and Richard, because I wanted to, not because I thought they would rescue me in old age. I got out of all social organizations and clubs in my fifties so I could spend time with my grandchildren, not because they would give something back to Jack and me later on, but because that was what I wanted to do--and I have loved doing it. Believe me, these have been selfish decisions. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#life-decisions #age

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#charging #country #credit #credit card #experience

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#buildings #burning #destroyed #explosives #fires

to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem #poetry #life

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#except #family #france #going #i

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

#becomes #british #child #exotic #journalist

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#because #describe #ever #expect #fact