#om

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak. ↗

— D. Biswas

#flash-fiction #literary #love #romance #death

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster. ↗

— Robert Culp

#direct #disaster #doing #script #sense

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#economics #myth #peak-oil #age

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#the-silver-metal-lover #young-adult #age

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you. ↗

— Burton Cummings

#album #because #been #bootleg #bother

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

#compare #just #live #live music #music

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one. ↗

— Kaley Cuoco

#come #hold #i #i can #me

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#class #classes #come #dance #dance classes

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#appeared #books #both #commercially #complete

. . . a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. ↗

— John Marshall

#age