#lit

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#artist #artists #how #lit #name

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#more #pulitzer #than #useful

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bank #bank account #checks #ghetto #little

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things. ↗

— John Dingell

#aware #daschle #enormous #formal #getting

The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#ability #best #buy #capital #cheap

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. ↗

— David Dinkins

#children #columbia #course #fun #go

The great thieves lead away the little thief. ↗

— Diogenes

#great #lead #little #thief #thieves

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#geographical #intensified #jobs #marriage #mobility