#no

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#known #million #people #proud #six

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. ↗

— David Brooks

#causes #comprehensible #confront #cult #death

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ↗

— David Brooks

#form #known #logical #lunacy #procedure

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too. ↗

— James Iha

#few #heard #i #know #like

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#every #know #matter #might #moment

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#every #every day #like #month #next

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#alive #arms #around #death #flap

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i #near #normal #oh #rather

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. ↗

— Earl Browder

#economy #expansion #explains #forces #history