#to

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#away #breaks #floor #hit #human

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#closet #doing #good #had #held

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#armies #army #called #cells #country

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed... ↗

— Michelle Paver

#brother #danger #death #father #michelle

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour. ↗

— Percy Heath

#died #europe #go #had #i

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#bristles #ceases #into #line #memory

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#fantastic #haven #herd #journalistic #last

The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clever #cowboy #cowboys #creative #creativity

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.' ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#else #every #every time #go #gonna

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. ↗

— Jon Heder

#cool #gonna #i #into #read