#out

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#adding #any #conscience #marvelous #nobody

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#believes #character #enterprise #experience #great

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#afraid #against #being #being afraid #cannot

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. ↗

— Ice T

#anybody #art #art form #back #because

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#down #growth #money #our #pay

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about. ↗

— Ice T

#comfortable #feel #i #i feel #income

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#broader #countries #european #european countries #expression

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#books #engaged #losers #lost #people