#pair

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. ↗

— David Antin

#brown #lie #little #man #myth

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#despair #dream #must #need #thou

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#causes #cleanse #despair #eliminate #failed

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#been #designs #eyes #filtered #gone

Action is the antidote to despair. ↗

— Joan Baez

#antidote #despair

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#die #ecstasy #men #spirits #while

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#done #repair #sometimes #take #ten

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#cannot #difference #get #go #goes

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ↗

— Aeschylus

#awful #cannot #comes #despair #drop

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. ↗

— Ian Anderson

#article #audience #awful #blue #boring