#not

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#cannot #fight #his #i #imagine

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #both #college #degree #everyone

There's nothing as real as money. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#nothing #real

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. ↗

— Barry Mann

#catalog #go #great #i #looked

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creating #cynthia #generally #i #know

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ↗

— Horace Mann

#cable #cannot #day #each #habit

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. ↗

— Horace Mann

#nothing #others #ourselves #undoing

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#best #best part #cigar #deprives #good

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#disease #leaves #makes #men #more

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#artists #beauty #cannot #company #eros