#ss

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#manhood #maturity #courage

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#our #soul #ugliness #will #world

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#dogs #night #over #revolution #russia

The process of building a part doesn't really stop. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#part #process #really #stop

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war. ↗

— David Plouffe

#criticized #decision #end #iraq #iraq war

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loneliness #life

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") ↗

— Gertrude Atherton

#life #sadness #life

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward. ↗

— John Podesta

#explicit #forward #i #i think #ideas