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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hating #loving #neighbors #our #ourselves

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

I'm very passionate about what I do. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#i #i do #passionate #very

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#answered #bits #bits and pieces #called #could

I'm never going to retire. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #never #retire

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#able #being #choices #choose #comes

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#amazing #another #bad #get #had

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #equal #loving #me #more