#pap

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. ↗

— Matt Stone

#commit #decision #find #i #inconsistencies

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! ↗

— John Green

#complaining #funny #graduation #humor #john-green

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#church #dad #enough #funny #getting

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#dollars #first #five #i #newspaper

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends. ↗

— Harry Styles

#friends #get #girlfriends #i #just

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#enough #invent #newspapers #ridiculous #suit

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#biggest #claims #day #either #entire

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#cut #draft #i #motivations #paper