#on

If I could only keep up my spirit- if I could only play the game according to the sportsman's code which Rita had been trying to teach me so gravely and so sweetly- if I could only, I told myself, do that, then in the long run, all might be right between us- because I had not nagged her or wearied her, because I had proved myself her peer, as prompt to offer all for love and as brave to bear its passing. If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart, the fires which keep the poet alive as the citizen never lives, but which burn all the roofs of security! ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#food

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. ↗

— Orson Welles

#artist #being #hate #his #i

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#broken #fester #forever #heal #opens

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#death #faithfulness #free #ground #kind

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#falseness #harm #honesty #hurt #i

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#anything #drill #easier #people #properly

This dark diction has become America's addiction. ↗

— Kanye West

#america #become #dark #diction

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time. ↗

— Kanye West

#crying #executives #front #frustrating #get

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones. ↗

— Kanye West

#also #boring #even #first #i