#not

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#country #determine #die #going #got

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#behave #creation #empathy #how #influences

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

#fashion #half-wits #out #two #wit

I have nothing to hide. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#i #nothing

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#because #each #eye #give #i

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#harm #help #help others #least #others

My private life has nothing to do with my films. ↗

— Fritz Lang

#life #nothing #private #private life

She had sought me out. I knew it would happen. Even if I had switched to a different section, she would have sought me out all the same. She, who hid in the crowd, who didn’t want anyone to see her behind her veil of averted eyes and aloofness. When I stepped forward, she came out, too. And she pointed and said, revealing a child’s wanton smile: “That’s the one I want.” And like a potted sunflower that had just been sold to a customer, I was taken away. There was no way to refuse. This, from a beautiful girl that I was already deeply, viscerally attracted to. Things were getting good. ↗

— Miaojin Qiu

#notes-of-a-crocodile #beauty

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #book #cases #close #close relationship

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them. ↗

— Henri Laurens

#aim #could #form #forms #full