#so

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#american dream #california #came #dream #southern

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#applied #aptly #conversation #forever #hit

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#away #fear #hope #more #reason

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#strong #tempers #uncertain

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#great #great depression #hope #i #i think

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#apply #choices #college #couple #decide

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#always #chasing #happen #i #just

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. ↗

— Will Champion

#being #good #hit #level #something