#ms

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#expect #inside #labels #slap #talk

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#been #fiction #i #influenced #information

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. ↗

— David Letterman

#bush #george #george w #giving #house

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams. ↗

— Joanna Noelle Levesque

#dreams #i #look #people #succeed

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems. ↗

— Carl Levin

#again #budget #country #cutting #fiscal

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. ↗

— Adam Levine

#confused #emotionally #enables #honest #i

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. ↗

— Jack Levine

#hit #i #i wish #paint #painter

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves. ↗

— Philip Levine

#european #families #feel #foreign #i