#uses

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#causes #except #fear #find #happenings

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#forty #forty years #had #lobby #needs

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#beauty #big #comfortable #constant #contributes

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#because #elected #fantasy #give #i

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#believing #go #go away #i #reality

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#excuses #get #home #how #look

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#always #book #director #flattering #happens

A brick could be used as a dream stimulator. Just tap it gently against your forehead. And if the mechanism gets stuck, just slam it down on your skull to jar everything loose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

A brick could be used to assuage your sense that life isn't real. Hold it in your hands and say, This is not a dream.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#generation #kind #length #like #our