#orc

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#aware #choose #decisions #forced #freedom

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#also #art #consumption #corporate #frankenstein

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#any #apparent #becoming #cannot #done

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try. ↗

— Chill Wills

#arresting #avoid #best #every #every man

The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#evening #force #hard #i #me

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#based #canada #experience #force #labour

My driving force is spirituality. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#driving force #force #spirituality

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life