#lit

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety. ↗

— Mo Yan

#biggest problems #lack #literature #problems #subtlety

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#democracy #extraordinary #few #here #i

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#comes #performer #public #responsibility #social

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#bit #brings #character #cure #different

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#actually #allocated #between #education #educational

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#back #because #bit #buy #car

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#angst #climb #enormous #existential #feel

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ↗

— Zhuangzi

#around #awoke #being #butterfly #dreamed

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#against #cbs #cbs news #dan #dan rather