#towards

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#actual #adequate #american #american life #aspiration

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#condition #great #great literature #literature #man

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#biggest #books #cooking #geared #loss

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#body #death #degrees #emotionally #familiar

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

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