#some

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

It began to occur to me that the whole story of love might be nothing more than a wicked lie; that simply sleeping beside another body night after night gives no express right of entry to the interior world of their thoughts or dreams;that we are separate in the end whatever contrary illusions we may cherish; and that this miserable truth might as well be faced, since it will be dinned into one, like it or not by the failings of those we hold dear. I wasn't so bitter now. I'd begun to emerge into a sense of satisfaction with my not, but it would be a long time before I trusted someone, for I'd seen how essentially unknowable even the best loved might prove to be. ↗

— Olivia Laing

#dreams

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager. ↗

— Phil Collins

#always #back #drink #families #gig

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing. ↗

— Phil Collins

#dogs #frankly #fun #great #i

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#always #caesar #cleopatra #had #home

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

#controlled #else #feeling #fun #holding

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#back #balanced #balanced budget #balanced budget amendment #benefits

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else. ↗

— Carlton Fisk

#almost #around #back #bases #believe

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think. ↗

— Carlton Fisk

#certain #everybody #funny #game #had

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life. ↗

— Toni Collette

#i #i think #inevitable #into #life