#rites

Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#beauty #clothing #daughter #husband #joke

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. ↗

— John Bolton

#anybody #appears #appreciate #i #know

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#because #clearly #curious #defined #i

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#like #plays #sings #son #songs

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#become #bestseller #books #del #did

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us. ↗

— Louise Brown

#famous #favorites #hate #i #like

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#good #good mind #mediocre #mind #reasonably

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play. ↗

— Gary Burton

#felt #his #i #i am #like

No one writes about the emotional things you go through. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#emotional #go #things #through #writes

Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. ↗

— Truman Capote

#hell #hypocrites #love #beauty