#ld

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#atomic #atomic bombs #been #bombs #dark

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#ball #bowling #building #device #lace

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#entertain #front #i #i always #little

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#came #childhood #comics #contained #found

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#buy #doing #far #going #good

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#could #decision-makers #fbi #get #had

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#any #distant #exempt #i #i am

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#change #concerned #either #far #films