#now

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them. ↗

— Gideon Welles

#brave #brave men #cold #crowd #day

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. ↗

— Morris West

#despair #fact #had #impossible #know

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect. ↗

— Saul Williams

#biased #black #called #chuck #cnn

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#cheese #date #dinner #favorite #first

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck. ↗

— James Wolcott

#circle #crashes #creative #deck #hairspray

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#be true #clearly #combat #every #experience

Now God be praised, I will die in peace. ↗

— James Wolfe

#god #i #now #peace #praised

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#asleep #beautiful #darkness #death #dying

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#american history #decade #great #history #me

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed. ↗

— William John Wills

#am #because #declare #disgusted #doing