#though

There are thoughts we must not think. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#think #thoughts

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#thoughtful #too-little-too-late #family

So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#hole #i #thought #too #wanted

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#crowd #detached #i #i am #local

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year. ↗

— Walt Disney

#did #disaster #disneyland #financial #first

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. ↗

— George Gissing

#beheld #creates #emotions #even #eyes

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

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#conservative #fabulous #i #reagan #ronald