#tryin

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#became #began #bubble #commented #contained

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#friends #get #interested #make #months

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evil #government #i #i believe #i believe that

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time. ↗

— David Miliband

#every #every time #inclusive #once #only

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me. ↗

— James Taylor

#amazingly #blessings #how #i #look

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#feels #figure #get #grew #home

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#financed #financing #get #i #know

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. ↗

— Laura Linney

#always #book #con #i #instead

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. ↗

— David Lloyd

#escape #escaping #means #more #our

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ↗

— John Locke

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