#r

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about. ↗

— Gay Talese

#am #come #could #i #i am

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

#finished work #i #i think #i write #like

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#inconsiderable #master #masters #merit #methods

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alimony #better #court #deal #different

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living. ↗

— Gay Talese

#describe #dialogue #i #living #move

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#die #forever #life #live #tomorrow

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#hard #lest #soft #squeezed #too

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#foreigner #his #like #man #own

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#hearts #like #love #people #selves