#thou

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #authors #books #bookstore #certainty

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#been #cancel #comfortable #each #gay

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#him #i #like #much #paul

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christian #far #ghetto #go #i

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#broadcasting #espn #i #missing #race

It's more fun to watch without joining in. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#joining #more #watch #without

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#even #hath #him #himself #power

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. ↗

— Judy Blume

#anything #become #could #even #grow

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. ↗

— Judy Blume

#babies #before #bit #care #college

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. ↗

— Judy Blume

#day #e-mail #i #junkie #once