#of

At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It moved slowly enough that Hillalum felt he could count the moments passing, but then it grew faster as it approached, until it raced past them faster than he could blink, and they were in twilight... For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#beautiful #nature #tower-of-babylon #beauty

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dead #i #me #off #pleased

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#goes #happened #history #ira #over

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #dead #give #had #i

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#into #lake #lovely #peace #profoundly

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#chicken #freak #geek #head #horrible

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#been #fiction #i #influenced #information

There is no off position on the genius switch. ↗

— David Letterman

#off #position #switch

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said. ↗

— David Letterman

#enter #everybody #governor #least #official