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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#dinner #frame #friends #human #human frame

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#difficulty #entire #forever #free #lives

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#door #everybody #his #insignificance #keep

What is art but a way of seeing? ↗

— Saul Bellow

#seeing #way

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#call #dyed #hand #her #own

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#stay-at-home-moms #life

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#between #call #false #few #impressions

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#artist #be grateful #beyond #grace #grateful