#happened

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead. ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#celebrate #dead #finished #happened #holiday

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#am #anything #because #cut #dawned

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #happened #i #kind #sept

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#had #happened #his way #hit #i

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ↗

— Peter Berger

#changing #flexible #happened #interprets #malleable

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#censors #doing #funny #go #going

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#big story #certain #comfort #finding #force

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism