#live

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#american literature #back #forever #leave #literature

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#fear #i #judgment #may #me

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#arts #book #first #first thing #i

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#although #back #been #boring #certainty

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. ↗

— Susan George

#around #been #being #children #collapsing

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#idealize #live #never #others #up

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#again #deliver #election #make #may

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#international #lives #losses #only #profits

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble. ↗

— Michael Cacoyannis

#belt #boss #death #life #look