#shed

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #conversation #doing #every #feeling

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#conversation #how #i #lost #lost art

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #book #column #compilation #could

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions. ↗

— Michael Musto

#helped #inhibitions #me #other #out

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. ↗

— Sam Neill

#character #i #life #my life #myself

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#approaches #bbc #decisions #established #final

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#child #distinguished #genius #i #i think