#the

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. ↗

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#appearances #correctness #creates #fact #in fact

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#book #day #ear #finished #five

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#businesses #children #death #death tax #destroying

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#bitter #bitter end #drivers #end #general

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#blended #bunch #even #got #hear

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#big thing #cherry #coke #dinner #dirty

Now journeys were not simple matters for Grace; nothing is simple if your mind is a fetch-and-carry wanderer from sliced perilous outer world to secret safe inner world; if when night comes your thought creeps out like a furred animal concealed in the dark, to fine, seize, and kill its food and drag it back to the secret house in the secret world, only to discover that the secret world has disappeared or has so enlarged that it's a public nightmare; if then strange beasts walk upside down like flies on the ceiling; crimson wings flap, the curtains fly; a sad man wearing a blue waistcoat with green buttons sits in the centre of the room, crying because he has swallowed the mirror and it hurts and he burps in flashes of glass and light; if crakes move and cry; the world is flipped, unrolled down in the vast marble stair; a stained threadbare carpet; the hollow silver dancing shoes, hunting-horns... ↗

— Janet Frame

#food

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#cosmos #cross #cultural #different #different beliefs

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#courage #fit #free #great #our

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #decide #due #go #i