#pa

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#crisis #deal #fashion #grasping #great

All my friends' mothers were appalling women. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#friends #mothers #were #women

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cat #diagram #embodied #fish #given

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#greater #law #learning #part #tell

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#master #master plan #much #part #plan

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #begin #haven #i #order

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. ↗