#through

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#begun #book #merely #never #read

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives. ↗

— James Wolcott

#channeling #conservatives #drive #enough #eyes

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through. ↗

— John Wozniak

#bands #been #ever #favorite #get

Someone once told me that life wasn't fair...and they were right. But I don't think that life was ever meant to be fair or perfect. It's not the tragedy, it's how we deal with it. It's whether we come out stronger because of it. It's not about blocking out the pain or hiding from it, it's about letting the pain shape you into someone better than you were before. ↗

— Nicole Garber

#strength #strength-through-adversity #art

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#avalanche #bury #fallen #going #just

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#being #had #him #irish #joy

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#cup #defense #did #few #game

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#came #clearly #democratic #democratic party #election

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#decades #false #having #learn #lived

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home. ↗

— Paul Kane

#before #encouragement #few #finding #flame