#paraphrase

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#humor #mystery #paraphrased #humor

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#humor #paraphrased #parody #dating

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. ↗

— Dick Francis

#paraphrased #weirdness #humor

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#paraphrased #poetry #dreams

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#paraphrased #charity

Evil will win if good people do nothing. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#real-talk #good-and-evil

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans