#sam

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#getting #me #novel #perfect #point

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. ↗

— Paul Auster

#any #being #believe #controlling #demoralizing

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#anyone #did #hard #i #results

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. ↗

— Tony Benn

#dangerous #disagrees #each #find #first

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#every #farthest #fully #granted #right

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#born #comes #everyone #i #influences

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. ↗

— William Petty

#man #nothing #once #pays #same

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#same #socialization #thing