#si

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #certain #conversations #each #happens

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anything #easier #everybody #going #hard

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#disinclined #distaste #lives #long #longevity

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#aggressive #anxious #arrogant #his #man

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #dying #itself #life #living

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#father #grew #i #intelligentsia #kind

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #fact #individual #inferior #inferiority

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#background #bring #combination #congress #efforts

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence. ↗

— James Joyce

#desire #love #soul #uncertainty #beauty