#tori

My first order of business was to look in the side pocket where I had hidden my garnet and gold necklace. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#business

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid ↗

— Lucian of Samosata

#freedom #historian #history #business

Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time. ↗

— Anne Fine

#stories #business

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#life #stories #uncertainty #unpredictability #change

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. ↗

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

#been #characters #dealing #events #fair

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. ↗

— Richard Russo

#america #american #american culture #culture #front

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#historical #history #i #i am #icon

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#almost #became #endless #grandparents #mythic

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#been #culture #had #historic #i

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#covers #cultural #each #ethnic #historical