#pen

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#because #being #business #caucasian #consider

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#contingency #disconcerting #everything #happens #me

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#beautiful #beautiful woman #differently #direct #happen

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene. ↗

— David Lloyd

#every #got #happens #happy #i

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening. ↗

— David Lloyd

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We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. ↗

— David Lloyd

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