#na

Literature is analysis after the event. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#analysis #event #literature

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments. ↗

— Richard Lester

#early #emotional #moments #more #rather

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

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#bobby #change #cut #dedicated #deserve

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team. ↗

— Jared Leto

#always #cared #date #dimensional #getting

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#human #human reason #internal #knows #language

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. ↗

— David Letterman

#changing #democratic #doing #elite #guard

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets. ↗

— David Letterman

#apology #bombed #certificate #chinese #clinton