#lit

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#baby #been #bit #chivalry #freedoms

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#got #guess #i #little #note

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#difficulty #him #literature #mean #precisely

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#convention #four #i #nations #peace

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#air #beauty #changes #claim #forest

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#being content #consists #content #happiness #having

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#elegant #foundation #literature #logical #once

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fellowship #made #more #perfect #quiet

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#box #boxing #got #i #into