#lit

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#exists #idea #like #literature #mind

I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#arteries #believe #bottled #concept #cultural

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.' ↗

— Paul Walker

#daddy #hearts #i #i think #little

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. ↗

— Euripides

#gold #little #moment #only #our

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#belong #belongs #either #hate #i

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#difficult #feel #felt #first #hand

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#cannot #carrying #into #life #lightly