#fort

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#concluded #construct #effort #first #honest

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. ↗

— James Wolcott

#believe #best #bring #collections #enjoy

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#bed #busy #else #enjoy #everybody

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#addressed #almost #area #being #effort

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#harmony #henceforth #japan #know #mankind

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are. ↗

— James Young

#apart #believes #comfortable #core #each

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#bores #family #getting #hand #his

Explosions are not comfortable. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#explosions

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#forty #men #age

By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat furniture and had begun a practice we now call curling up with a good book. ↗

— Joan DeJean

#age