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If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#compact #conquest #does #neither #posterity

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#clay #cliffs #composed #cutting #descent

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#actor #allowed #being #body #clothes

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain. ↗

— David Smith

#heart #his #more #than #thinking

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. ↗

— David Smith

#either #sink #swim #you

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#art

A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#afraid #body #crazy #cycle #eat

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#always #ended #had #hit #how

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#friends #hanging #i #life #line

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

#literary-fiction #literature #writers #writing #experience