#hang

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.
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— Jarod Kintz

#adoption #family #grandfathered #grandma #law

My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving -- that each book I write is a new personal best. ↗

— Barbara Delinsky

#change

We can’t have what we want and nothing is gonna change it. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#nothing #change

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them. ↗

— Earnest Gellner

#ideas #knowledge #language #thought #change

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#victorian #writing-life #change

In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the micro-practices of interpersonal dialogue and embodied ways of knowing each other can provide an impetus fro structural change. ↗

— Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

#dialogue #embodiment #feminism #pedagogy #performance

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him? ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#adventure #mystery #suspense #travel #change

As you change your thoughts and your mental vision, you are changing your reality. ↗

— Alice Hocker

#motivational-quotes #change

I only need to write about 3,000 one-liners a day to produce a million jokes a year. Simple. I’ll just get started after I take a nap. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jokes #nap #one-liner #work-ethic #change

To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works hard, then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to be successful. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #lethargic #reading #success #change