#kin

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#any #anything #find #given #into

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #child #did #frightened #i

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#body-image #bones #dieting #fantasy #feet

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#ideas #live #making #our #own

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. ↗

— Leonardo Sciascia

#film #films #grew #i #involved

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#internet #online-writing #social-networking #twitter #age

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#ever #get #i #picking #think

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#enjoy #eternal #eternally #how #life

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too ↗

— Saul Bellow

#age

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i