#pa

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. ↗

— Bob Feller

#equipment #hair #more #nowadays #packing

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#because #feel #feel good #good #i

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#afresh #again #damn #every #generation

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#best #constitutional #features #futile #i

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#intuitively #just #part #read #respond

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. ↗

— Ranulph Fiennes

#bills #estate #expeditions #go #houses

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference