#plain

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#complaining #good #long #person #you

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#events #excuse #explain #grounds #indulge

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#am #economic #economic policy #explain #i

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#adult #average #feeling #gets #healthy

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#explain #get #given #i #job

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#always #explaining #got #i #i think

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#another #explain #i #i always #sort

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#cannot #decide #decisive #ever #explained