#rot

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. ↗

— John Green

#chicago #city #favorite #first #i

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#confronting #exactly #general #ghost #grappling

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#english #english language #know #language #love

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

#always #bell #calls #dumb #guard

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! ↗

— Graham Greene

#clock #cuckoo #democracy #did #five

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#absence #confiscation #gold #gold standard #inflation

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#concert #end #i #mass #more

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#even #fragile #freedom #measure #must

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#alone #average #brother #crushed #desperately