#lit

If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#behind #better #care #just #little

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#arose #art #became #course #marxism

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#curse #deep #literature #snare #toil

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#figures #landscape #little #perfect #relaxing

Personality is lower than partiality. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#partiality #personality #than

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#how #however #little #live #long

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#clue #i #idea #insisted #only

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#another #fiction #form #just #moment

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#dismiss #feel #flattering #i #i think

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exhaustion #his #history #man #possibilities