#w

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#detailed #english #english teacher #father #got

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ↗

— William Gibson

#been #boy #childhood #corner #dead

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ↗

— William Gibson

#enough #future #i #like #most

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ↗

— Andre Gide

#except #leads #never #objective #path

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. ↗

— Andre Gide

#finding #knowing #only #people #some

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ↗

— Andre Gide

#discover #does #lands #long #long time

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

#done #exists #faithful #indispensable #make

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ↗

— Andre Gide

#combat #direct #easier #labors #lead

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be. ↗

— William Stolzenburg

#death

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ↗

— Andre Gide

#cannot #discover #lose #man #new