#su

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#celebrity #celebrity thing #get #i #i think

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#am #biographical #business #i #i am

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #i do #intellectual #ones #only

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#almost #animal #any #anytime #blushing

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#building #confidence #constructed #enter #gate

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#being #guitar #guitarist #however #i

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#element #exist #greatest #know #perhaps

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#best #best way #change #climate #climate change

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#misunderstand #other #out #people #spin