#sm

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

I know a lie when I hear one. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#lie #life #quote #sarcasm #satire

So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

We approach closer and closer to socialism. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

#closer #socialism

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on. ↗

— Myrtle Reed

#even #feet #make #other #our

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small! ↗

— Noel Redding

#because #called #first #got #i

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#been #experience #had #i #smithsonian

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#go #grow #grow up #into #journalism

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. ↗

— Emmett F. Fields

#misattributed-to-carl-sagan #religion #attitude