#in

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write. ↗

— William Goldman

#easiest #easiest thing #thing #write

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. ↗

— William Goldman

#books #day #dies #each #go

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. ↗

— William Goldman

#crucial #first #followed #job #least

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#anticipation #calamity #future #great #great source

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#everything #friends #i #i love #love

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#be nice #expect #give #her #kind

Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#ball #ball game #before #comes #find

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#country #curiosity #goes #guided #himself