#no

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ↗

— Patrick White

#closed #developed #dining #door #habit

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. ↗

— Ryan White

#facts #guarantees #hundred #listening #medical

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#knowledge #shrinks #wisdom

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #candidate #conservatives #democrats #economy

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#drift #everything #nothing #words

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#about #anything #devotion #knows #like

In married life three is company and two none. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #married #married life #none #three

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one. ↗