#hem

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#authority #children #entertainment #entertainment industry #everything

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. ↗

— William Tyndale

#blood #bodies #bound #breaking #calves

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#critic #deadly #encouragement #give #heavy

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#am #i #i am #knew #men

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#academy #alleviate #classes #economically #exploited

Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#be kind #down #kind #meet #people

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#after #although #ask #character #fact

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined. ↗

— Irene Dunne

#few #few things #friends #i #invited

I always believed in my characters. I lived them. ↗

— Irene Dunne

#believed #characters #i #i always #lived

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#because #chess #chronicles #design #each