#om

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#days #just #tedium #these #you

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: “They’re wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank #jackson #jupiter #neptune #percy

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#point #reach #somebody #sometimes #where

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #competition #completely #different #different people

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#get #i #paper #remember #something

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#boy #censorship #get #seldom #upset

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#caught #coming #did #food #good

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#compete #country #death #die #fate

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#herself #honor #never #she #should