#pta

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ↗

— David Mamet

#conservative #gay #get #greater #liberal

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #find #hammer #hit #i

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#been #books #few #i #know

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#doing #find #give #life #like

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#acceptable #anxieties #correct #i #john

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#comes #decisions #drivers #out #temptation

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#change #consequence #consists #described #diversification

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#actually #america #educators #only #opinion

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#be grateful #becomes #grateful #idea #man