#pap

Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. ↗

— John Green

#nerdfighters #paper-towns #things-that-matter #beauty

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. ↗

— Alice Walker

#always #care #come #company #find

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #baby #because #disciplinarian #easy

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astrology #astronomy #believe #every #few

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cannot #disgust #first #hand #horrors

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#could #disgust #hands #his #honor

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #collections #did #good #had

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#actually #audience #clip #comes #genuine

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. ↗

— Boris Becker

#any #big #big picture #bubble #coach

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#feared #four #hostile #more #newspapers