#tend

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. ↗

— James Laughlin

#dates #deal #difficulty #good #good deal

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fairy #her #invention #lots #many

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. ↗

— Primo Levi

#carved #change #erased #even #extraneous

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#cut #extend #i #i think #needs

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#experiences #expressing #feelings #first #foremost

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#bell #come #discovered #field #labs

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#die #expect #husband #i #intend

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it. ↗

— Chris Martin

#always #angle #else #feelings #framing

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#actually #being #better #books #events