#tru

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#extraordinary #future #none #populations #projects

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#instruments #made #pretty #sculpture #some

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#doing #even #hold #illusion #important

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#california #growing #growing up #hockey #knew

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

What is really beautiful must always be true. ↗

— Stendhal

#be true #beautiful #must #really #true

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#cannot #denouncing #falsehood #truth #without