#w

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#belly #frenetic #hair #his #i

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #living #only #worth #worth living

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#dead #epitaph #eye #finally #god

I understand your new play is full of single entendres. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#i #new #play #single #understand

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#examining #home #i #kind #me

When I was born I owed twelve dollars. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#dollars #i #i was born #owed #twelve

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#come #contain #costume #could #designer

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#decisions #forced #his #inaccurate #judge

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue ↗

— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#knowledge-of-the-self #knowledge-wisdom #lessons-in-life #lessons-learned #life