#w

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#prophecy #unanticipated #wise

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded... ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#sanity #wise

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#marilyn-monroe #wise

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #wise

Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do." Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#werewolf #observation

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#old-wives-tales #wise

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do -- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street. ↗

— Stephen King

#fiction #good-writing #writing #observation

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. ↗

— Madonna

#masdonna #mercy #poor

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#interview #job #judgement #observation #paris-review

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#process #sorrow #observation