#tory

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#age #history #know #much #never

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#because #everybody #expert #grab #loneliness

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now. ↗

— Anna Sui

#big #big business #business #country #designing

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#could #culture #good #good job #help

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

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