#storm

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confusion #disorientation #excess #excessive #eye

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#art

There was a sense of being in the midst of something having prodigious weight and volume but no form, of being utterly unable to utilize past experience. ↗

— Thomas Gallagher

#storms #winds #experience

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dark-clouds #discourage #haters #jealousy #negative-people

It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do....Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous...It was so much gray--so little black and white; for a year she'd spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life. ↗

— Laura Kinsale

#life

Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously on your nose. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#mercedes-lake #storm-breaking #life

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#storm-of-swords #tywin-lannister #men

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-storm-of-swords #george-r-r-martin #jaime-lannister #men

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. ↗

— Margaret Chittenden

#chittenden #crazy #margaret #room #writers

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#asoiaf #fantasy #grrm #fantasy