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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#moment #resistance #temptation #victory

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

#court #different #five #intended #law

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. ↗

— George Saunders

#breaking #chances #gets #habits #limited

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspire #die #fail #pontificate #posture

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#hardly #i #i can #plays #should

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself. ↗

— Adam Savage

#am #break #continue #fool #go

It's my job as governor to set a vision. ↗

— Mary Fallin

#job #set #vision

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #born #created #desires #fundamentally