#ode

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#been #believe #breasts #flows #greece

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? ↗

— Manuel Puig

#dream #dreams #model #nocturnal #simplify

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#undefined #yet

It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling! ↗

— James Chanos

#back #beat #biggest #brave #collapse

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#felt #fiction #general #i #influence

And to this day, my Mom is my role model. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#model #mom #role #role model

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#models #out #runway #send #useless

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out