#read

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#blows #come #easy #everyone #later

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#analyze #autobiographies #find #journey #life

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#i #me #much #myself #papers

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#before #bit #got #i #pregnant

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#around #being #dreamt #editors #finished

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms #arms race #before #desire #get

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#keeps #place #proust #read #you

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. ↗

— Tim Roth

#based #bin #dogs #fiction #goes

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#dreads #himself #man #marrying #others