#mo

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#away #fear #hope #more #reason

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bottom #bottom line #depends #editors #everything

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#begin #did #emotion #which #work

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#apply #choices #college #couple #decide

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#came #childhood #comics #contained #found

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#automobiles #ban #central #city #fad

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#asked #degree #drafts #except #i

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bed #before #begins #book #characters

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#back #books #cholera #fire #going

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bookstore #just #lawyers #money #were