#thou

There's a lot you can do without words. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#without #words #you

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#anything #been #bombs #flying #head

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#begin #find #may #more #new

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#fact #first #habits #half #in fact

To live without Hope is to Cease to live. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#cease #live #without

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#five #formula #make #two #without

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#compete #funny #group #leadership #people