#thoughts

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#always #great #i #identity #informed

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anything #efforts #escape #evil #fruitless

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life-lessons #philosophy #thinking #thoughts #change

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. ↗

— Ma Jian

#flesh #mind #only #thoughts #tyrannies

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#know #lying #man #pen #takes

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#friends #himself #lazy #out #person

Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life #me #thoughts #dreams

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry. ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#thoughts #anger

It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #representation #thoughts #art