#ms

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#himself #his #man #only #own

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#even #feel #get #himself #need

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#care #great #just #kept #out

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#bad #because #chemical #chemicals #died

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves. ↗

— Robert Shea

#attracts #because #better #fulfilling #more

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action. ↗

— Robert Shea

#club #down #end #freedom #garden

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#been #cast #could #episode #expertise

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#could #heroes #himself #honest #i

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#die #ever #gets #kids #know