#han

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#evil #persons #society #solitude #than

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. ↗

— Christian Bale

#film #larger #never #should #than

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#dealing #dreadful #eyes #few #few things

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#born #changed #changes #eager #go

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #born #conspiracy #cultivation #feels

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#definition #heart #himself #his #imagines

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#bombing #bringing #child #into #involved

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#i #instinct #man #rather #reason

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other