#extract

Life is a means of extracting fiction. ↗

— Robert Stone

#fiction #life #life is a #means

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#almost #antidote #aspect #concept #emotion

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#being #being happy #common #common things #extracting

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#declare #extracting #friend #gems #hours

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#convict #extract #force #his #hold

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#country #equality #european #extraction #farming

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#comes #consider #different #extract #history