#tell

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#story #tell #age

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#capable #crime #day #dry #evaporates

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#kind #like #people #telling #thing

A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#education

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. ↗

— George Woodcock

#boy #even #free #how #i

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

#drill #grinding #intellect #most #painful

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#more #pantomime #story #takes #tell

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. ↗

— Henry Wotton

#confound #puzzle #tell #truth #your

Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; almost everything benefits information. Actually, it is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it. . . . The most extraordinary things, marvelous things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the event is not forced on the reader. It is left up to him to interpret things the way he understands them, and thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art

Audiences want to see intelligent movies. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#intelligent #movies #see #want