#lt

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#each #failings #faults #find #follies

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#before #culture #grace #literature #poetry

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#act #automatic #back #congress #deep

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#difficult #difficult circumstances #home #how #raised

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#becoming #completely #contempt #cut #felt

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#dancing #i #specialty

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. ↗

— Richard McCabe

#eloquently #feeling #felt #shakespeare #something

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#child #did #fulltime #i #novels

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947. ↗