#ff

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. ↗

— James Thomson

#easier #forgive #generous #offence #than

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#first #first love #first thing #honest #i

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#desires #feet #like #off #our

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#chinese culture #culture #different #equivalent #geisha

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. ↗

— David Eagleman

#based #behavioural #change #constructed #difference

It's nice that we have all these different films. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#films #nice #these

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

#employers #gap #i #likely #long

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#effort #hurt #only

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#efficiency #fascist #many #myth #people

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#come #differ #dread #during #gods