#period

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#book #could #give #man #period

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. ↗

— Earl Browder

#capitalism #created #economic #economic growth #expansion

Come out, Yamiko, come out... ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

Now you can be a kikei, too. ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

Mothers cry in anguish and fathers curse in anger, while others turn away in sadness, all for the children who are lost. ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #anger

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ↗

— Alan Brien

#been #being #collecting #congenial #debt

Where do you go when you die twice- lest a thousand deaths? ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books