#loo

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#after #come #conscience #dog #examine

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#back #baseball #first #first time #glove

Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it. The book was written with zest and, if possible, it should be read that way. It is a comic novel about a Christian malgré lui, and as such, very serious, for all comic novels that are any good must be about matters of life and death. Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for some readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence. For them, Hazel Motes's integrity lies in his trying with such vigor to get rid of the ragged figure who moves from tree to tree in the back of his mind. For the author, Hazel's integrity lies in his not being able to do so. Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen. (Preface to second edition, 1962) ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#wise-blood #age

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. ↗

— Garry Winogrand

#described #fact #i #like #look

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#cozy #how #i #into #life

Whatever happened to the dragon?" I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know." Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look. "I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?" "Hopper" When Adrian laughed, I added "Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on." "Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?" "I think you mean the Ivashkinator." He stared at me in wonder. "I told you I loved you, right? "Yes," I assured him. "Many Times ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #cute #funny #humour #love

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#clothes #forgotten #had #her #into

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look. ↗

— James Wolcott

#anymore #because #behind #broadway #fashion

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#before #editorial #even #i #i think

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#hard #horse #looks #outsider #persuade