#ill

You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#bite-club #eve-rosser #morganville-vampires #rachel-caine #anger

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #humor #illuminate #inform #show

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#till-we-have-faces #writing #writing-craft #art

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#emotion #experience #illusion #perception #art

I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage. ↗

— Marianne Curley

#middle-age #pit #stink #village #age

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#becoming #book #famous #guide #had

I still enjoy watching films more than making them. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

#films #i #making #more #still

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. ↗

— Robert Charles Winthrop

#cherished #country #defended #described #hands

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard. ↗

— Scott Wolf

#feel #hard #i #just #like

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#never #rise #said #say #something