#ros

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#capote #heterosexual #i #i am #truman

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#big #come #deniro #exciting #first

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #fitzgerald #happiness #rose #roses

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#long #roses #wine

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#way

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#energy #got #hasn #just #prose

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#constantly #coupled #earth #erosion #found

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard