#straight

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#did #everybody #explicit #face #feels

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#ahead #back #before #even #i

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing. ↗

— Kate Smith

#hair #i #i can #know #sing

We can also profit by reading more modern authors who seem at first sight to be merely perversely questioning what every sensible person knows to be true. Such writers do us a great service, of forcing us to question our old beliefs, so that we may freely and intelligently choose what is sound in them and reject the rest, and thus have our minds prepared for seeing new and unfamiliar truths. Most people do not need protection from being shocked. They need to be shocked a great deal more than they are. ↗

— R.H. Thouless and C.R. Thouless

#straight-crooked-thinking #intelligence

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#did #latter #never #oblique #prefer

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #god #makes #straight #thought

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#born #born to be #career #i #i was born

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #believe #citizen #fiction #injustice

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#does #epic #exact #forward #go

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#believe #fiction #justice #least #occur