#rites

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. ↗

— Dakota Fanning

#car #car accident #days #favourites #got

I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished. ↗

— Barbet Schroeder

#favorite #favorites #finished #i #just

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#decent #formula #get #i #itself

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#go #go home #home #hunt #hypocrite

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

We are not hypocrites in our sleep. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#our #sleep

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. ↗

— David Sedaris

#connor #dialect #even #should #than

I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#musical-favorites #rebirth #vinyl-records #life

Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it. ↗

— C. E. Montague

#rewrites #change