#lit

There is only one school of literature - that of talent. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#only #school #talent

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#head #heart #i #i think #only

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#any #becomes #community #destructive #egoism

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#dark #dreaming #else #everywhere #exactly

I thought it would be a lot of fun and I wasn't going to do the movie without Johnny. The studio suggested a couple people, and I'd never met Johnny, but I thought we'd be a perfect team for this movie because we're both a little bit unpredictable. ↗

— Sean William Scott

#bit #both #couple #fun #going

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print. ↗

— John Sexton

#black and white #get #i #image #in print

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #books #literature #passion #teaching

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#any #away #bet #either #experience

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#dysfunctional #family #i #labeled #learned

I always feel like a goofy little kid. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#feel #goofy #i #i always #kid