#reasons

There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we write. We do not write because we must; we always have a choice. We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate. We communicate to connect, to know community. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#writing-life #communication

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#choices #horses #life #reasons #life

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. ↗

— Jay Asher

#teen-suicide #thirteen-reasons-why #teen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ↗

— Woody Allen

#better #financial #only #poverty #reasons

I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#chose #i #i think #me #reasons

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#design #due #excite #government #hearers

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life. ↗

— John Astin

#continue #demonstrates #difficult #difficult things #doing

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#church #few #forget #free #go

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#i #reasons #spending #tax #year

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do? ↗

— Roone Arledge

#abc news #attract #because #captured #dies