#lit

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#fiction #literature #veronica-roth #literature

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#american #back #beef #best #bse

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#central #dead #enjoy #how #i

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#fidelity #fling #love #lust #middle-age

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#get #have fun #i #little #manic

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#storytelling #literature

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#immortality #man #material #nothing #reached

I play the guitar a little bit. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#guitar #i #little #little bit #play

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#purity #well

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. ↗

— Cintra Wilson

#politics #satire #economy