#lit

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. ↗

— James Dickey

#i #poetry #tranquillity #want

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #i #idiot #member #myself

I dwell in possibility. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#i #possibility

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#art #dazzling #glorious #level #literature

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#anything #been #before #comes #enjoyment

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#being #brother #children #family #had

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#cause #connection #deep #dock #feel

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#more #pulitzer #than #useful