#is

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#insanity #mental-health #psychiatrist #sanity #art

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ↗

— Plautus

#affairs #every #every man #friend #however

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#changing #current #current state #ever #history

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#inexorable #law #thinks #who

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar. ↗

— William Pierce

#blends #every #greatness #his #person

Good artists copy; great artists steal. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artists #philosophy #picasso #art

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#distracted #energy #focused #i #know

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. ↗

— David Sedaris

#always #been #exaggeration #humorists #i

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#being #comes #continue #doing #fact

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so. ↗

— Laura Harrington

#coming-of-age #father-daughter #fiction #iraq-war #age