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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#college

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese? ↗

— Stephen King

#commencement #intellect #steven-king #college

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ↗

— Michelle Richmond

#degree #write #writer #college

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#semi-colons #writing #college

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.
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— Jarod Kintz

#degree #economic-depression #english #job #leisure

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#communication #companies #companion-animals #delusion #education

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. ↗

— Holly Black

#lies #truth #choice

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#word-choice #writing #choice

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #tea #choice

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#atheist #creator #evolution #god #noremorse