#lit

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#facts #ignoring #politics #practical

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#frequently #guide #inaccurate #reality

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education #end #human #human nature #knowledge

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. ↗

— Henry Adams

#genius #highest #susceptibility

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. ↗

— Thomas McGuane

#literature #writing #writing-life #death

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #life #love #lovers #mortality

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. ↗

— Scott Adams

#internet #myself #realities #surrendering

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. ↗

— Diane Wood

#adapt #build #could #create #document

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cloudy #constitutions #day #great #influence

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#been #compared #condescended #i #indian