#on

Money? I lost all taste for it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#lost #money #taste

...why can't I stop all the moving and look out over the vast arrangements and find by the contours and colors and qualities of light where my father is, not to solve anything but just simply even to see it again one last time, before what, before it ends, before it stops. But it doesn't stop; it simply ends. It is a final pattern scattered without so much as a pause at the end, at the end of what, at the end of this. ↗

— P. Harding

#dying #father-and-son #life #death

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#fire #obscurity #souls #stalwart #those

The world is a penal institution. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#penal #world

Perception is created and twisted so quickly. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#perception #quickly #twisted

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. ↗

— John Callahan

#between #bookstores #both #caught #competing

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. ↗

— John Callahan

#feminist #humor #section

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire? ↗

— Maria Callas

#because #gets #helped #hurt #i

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#deep down #down #iraqi #iraqi people #out

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#across #after #also #amazing #because