#si

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#entertain #i #just #like #myself

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks. ↗

— Laura Dern

#likes #man #other #side #tracks

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. ↗

— Laura Dern

#buy #conglomerate #get #movies #overall

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#i #jazz #more #music #play

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#against #first #hollywood #i #opposition

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. ↗

— Laura Dern

#another #chance #character #comfortable #expose

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#great number #implicit #level #number #philosophy

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#difficult #human #human beings #intersect #just

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#breakdown #case #edge #experience #frail