#tin

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. ↗

— Dorianne Laux

#experience

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail. ↗

— Leon Uris

#inspirational #writing #anger

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#been #being #few #first #haven

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt. ↗

— Breckin Meyer

#awhile #brad #brad pitt #got #i

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child’s life, and in a child’s level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#liberties #man #only #other #protect

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anticipating #enjoy #happen #his way #manage