#post

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. ↗

— David Mitchell

#satire #writing #satire

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters? ~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2) ↗

— Alexia Purdy

#dystopia #mature-ya #post-apocalyptic #suspense #thriller

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#simile #strikes #washington-post #anxiety

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#challenge #introducing #piece #postfix #problems

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#auditions #magazines #posted #trade #types

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#case #got #government #how #i

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#doing #fain #i #posterity #see

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#before #even #gone #i #life