#or

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#change the world #consciousness #general #only #poets

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#american dream #california #came #dream #southern

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#applied #aptly #conversation #forever #hit

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#considerable #good #great #inferiors #most

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#away #fear #hope #more #reason

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bottom #bottom line #depends #editors #everything

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#cowardice #lies #rashness #true #valor

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#begin #did #emotion #which #work

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#entertain #front #i #i always #little