#vent

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. ↗

— David Frum

#choices #control #events #just #makes

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. ↗

— David Frum

#am #because #events #going #happen

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #lead #life #very

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#become #boring #events #life #pompous

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#earth #edge #faith #fall #fallen

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#good #invent #junk #need #pile

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ↗

— Bill Stern

#eventually #free #our #pay #results

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. ↗

— Robert Frost

#did #ever #every #invent #meant

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#constitutes #continue #find #greatest #greatest pleasure