#ura

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#manhood #maturity #courage

You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god? ↗

— Ryohgo Narita

#izaya #past-and-future #life

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#gift #marks

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#clear #efficient #good #keep #language

I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good. ↗

— Hal Price

#courageous #dangerous #doing #falling #figure

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#deliver #first #food #house #i

When life leaves you broken, wounded, and shattered, hope will give you strength to face another day. ↗

— Marie Cornelio

#hopeful-and-encouraging #life

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. ↗

— Wolfgang Puck

#learned #more #ones #restaurant #successes

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#accurately #appreciate #before #briefly #clearly

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly