#ge

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#cannot #chairs #comfortable #doors #enough

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#calamity #gesture #hands #head #implore

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard

In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know," Amar's father had told him. "But suppose the world changes?" Amar had thought. "Then what would you know? ↗

— Paul Bowles

#change

The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed into me. WHO DARES- The voice stopped abruptly, The anger retreated, which was a good thing, because just those two words had almost blasted my mind to shreds. Percy. My fathers voice was still angry but more controlled. What-exactly-are you doing on my throne? "I'm sorry, Father," I said. "I needed to get your attention." This was a very dangerous thing to do. Even for you. If I hadn't looked before I blasted, you would now be a puddle of seawater. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#poseidon #anger

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#clutter #dropping #gets #had #i

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again. ↗

— Amy Lee

#broken #fallen #get #going #hint

Yes, I'm a great believer in angels. ↗

— Anna Lee

#believer #great #great believer #i #yes

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#certain #die #everything #get #happens