#or

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#been #culture #had #historic #i

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#bandits #day #each #foresee #himself

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another. ↗

— Antony Sher

#another #being #closet #comfortable #everything

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss. ↗

— Ransom Riggs

#home #new-beginnings #dreams

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge. ↗

— Don Sherwood

#bridge #driving #george #george washington #grew

The original is unfaithful to the translation. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#translation #unfaithful

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now. ↗

— Eric Shinseki

#been #cold #cold war #desert #designed

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#covers #cultural #each #ethnic #historical

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. ↗

— Anthony Caro

#in other words #other #respond #sculpture #sees

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words. ↗

— William Shirley

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