#isi

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. ↗

— Hanif Kureishi

#advertising

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#trisiel #chance

THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crazy #crisis #insanity #crazy

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#cry #crying #decisions #right

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#fancy #raisins #terrible #wordplay #bad

So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#decision-making #comfort

Having a Vision is not enough. It must be combined with imagination, determination, faith, hope and passion. It is not enough to just stare up at the stars...we must become the stars that the stars shine down on. ↗

— Victoria June

#dreams #faith #hope #imagination #passion

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#every #every time #fail #failing #glory

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs