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When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window. ↗

— Liz Fichera

#life

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. ↗

— Donna Jo Napoli

#literary #saved #life

i write, because not breathing is not an option. ↗

— Monice Mitchell Simms

#writing #life

Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#life #nw #video-games #zadie-smith #life

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#any #anyone #around #been #cat

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook. ↗

— Cornel West

#life

It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count. ↗

— Derek Preston

#life #people #truth #life

Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?" "Go where?" said the Scarecrow. "Go forward," said the girl. "See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young." "Now?" said the Scarecrow. "Can you tell it now?" "After," said the girl. "We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life" "And what's life?" said the scarecrow. "Moving," said the girl. "Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me? ↗

— Bruce Coville

#mythical #life

The nerve liberal women today have, to take such an important educational tool as slapping men in the face and treat it like a common method of debate! Slaps in the face have become nothing more than idiomatic sophisms. They signify the relativism of values that infects our age. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #relativism #slapping #age

Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up... ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#laws #regulations #age