#ten

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. ↗

— Peter Straub

#better #consistent #everyone #get #go

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. ↗

— Mark Strand

#curious #expressive #i #me #never

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. ↗

— Mark Strand

#engage #i #like #me #poems

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

#excitement #felt #first #going #i

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. ↗

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#been #concept #friend #giver #had

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#gentiles #human #jew #jewish #law

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#gentiles #goal #guard #jews #persecute

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#each #eating #half #having #me

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#colonization #end #frequently #germany #historians