#fin

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#books #coming #disappointing #find #grass

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#accept #also #england #find #france

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy. ↗

— David Wenham

#crazy #deterioration #find #finishes #humanity

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#before #came #domestic #finishing #found

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#expansion #ideology #indefinite #into #liberty

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find. ↗

— Cornel West

#admiration #adoration #apply #attraction #basic

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#american #because #bored #defining #division

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#child #dad #embarrassed #fifth #finished