#lit

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#convinced #energies #female #gender #i

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality

At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#ball #because #bit #camera #contend

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#good #hopes #humble #modest #otherwise

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#charming #friends #had #i #judgment

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#always #another #before #being #choose

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#care #child #child care #control #economic

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. ↗

— Ben Okri

#dickens #home #i #literature #london