#phrase

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#paraphrased #humor

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#life

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused farmer. He was nice, though. He sent me a kind letter saying that while he was flattered, I wasn’t really his type. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#distance #farmer #farmers #kindness #land

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#plot #parenting

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. ↗

— Banksy

#paraphrased #painting

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