#met

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#boxing #enjoyed #give #gloves #i

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cause #down #emerge #ever #experiences

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i think #i write #quiet #sometimes

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #comes #examined #feminists #haven

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#became #because #color #communist #ever

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #bore #i #knew #me

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#experience #remember #something #you

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. ↗

— Jared Leto

#always #away #because #been #given