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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#complain #game #others #rejoice #should

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fake #inner #nothing #vision

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#been #before #century #lot #make

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#soulmates #beauty

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#full #future #idealised #in fact #notion

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

Their rage supplies them with weapons. ↗

— Virgil

#supplies #their #them #weapons

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#any #believe #capable #expanding #go

In between trash and treasure. ↗

— Raditya Dika

#love-story #reality #love

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

#assassination #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #dr