#meth

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#another #fails #frankly #means #method

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#dirty #getting #into #metabolism #plays

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? ↗

— Kurt Russell

#methods #off #police #questions #say

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

#envisioned #held #i #i think #mind

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. ↗

— Richard Russo

#back #begin #certainly #close #end

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#change #good #happen #happened #me

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #devour #eating #embrace #expect

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time. ↗

— Jacques Santer

#artificial #certain #last #only #period

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#attention #duty #feel #look #make