#instead

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#art #become #creative #creative art #exercise

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#also #america #become #being #consumerism

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#does #even #exist #instead #off

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

#errors #establishing #facts #imaginations #instead

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ↗

— Dave Anderson

#hopes #instead #into #next #off

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#forget #instead #merciful #more #perhaps

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#because #being #character #did #doing

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. ↗

— James Madison

#burdens #declared #fruits #government #instead