#pro

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#even #fact #gay #i #proud

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ↗

— William Cobbett

#leap #misery #much #produced #reach

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#expenditure #increase #knowledge #lead #progress

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #cannot #considering #difficulty #double

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#book #change #crime #crisis #every

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#back #back up #big #cleaned #draft

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#french #french revolution #i #i think #instance

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren. ↗

— Howard Coble

#american #american families #believe #children #diligently

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade. ↗

— Howard Coble

#austria #baltic #both #crime #estonia

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels. ↗

— Howard Coble

#decrease #forces #further #ground #hear