#if

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life #lonely #major #regret #unnecessarily

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. ↗

— Al Capp

#different #else #embarrassment #everyone #how

Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#another #change #connected #constitution #continuous

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. ↗

— Lois Capps

#cell #cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anymore #became #because #change #cut

He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song. ↗

— A.G. Howard

#beautiful-writing #beauty

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#poetry #life

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#all-time #answer #ask #book #different

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. ↗

— Drew Carey

#anything #as far as #depend #far #financial