#lit

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#actually #angry #defend #doing #getting

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#college #editor #editors #i #i love

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ↗

— Paul Newman

#equality #gay #gay-rights #equality

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#bat #fly #how #i #i wonder

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it. ↗

— David Zucker

#audience #feels #get #guy #how

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#belong #benefit #companies #cuban #exclusively

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. ↗

— Willa Cather

#exile #family #friends #full #his

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #any #automatically #definition #disqualified

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#current #i #interested #policy #politics

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#cannot #choose #literature #lose #made