#old

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#manifold #misery #wretchedness

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#bother #doing #every #good #good soldier

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#artists #even #finished #i #knew

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ↗

— Buddha

#burned #coal #else #gets #grasping

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ↗

— Edward Lear

#built #feared #four #hen #i

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#camera #holding #i #i can #subtle

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#better #book #cliche #everyone #had

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times. ↗

— Wen Ho Lee

#best #else #i #i can #just

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. ↗

— John Leeson

#comedy #end #era #fantastic #golden