#graph

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#attitude

…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#biography

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. ↗

— Anne Spollen

#emotions #landscape #memory #rooms #biography

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#photograph #shirley #should #temple #through

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#attractive #autobiography #dead #most #things

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#almost #art #art history #becoming #class

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#invisible #photograph #see

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving