#who

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#cards #eat #man #mom #never

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#come #earth #even #healing #look

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#case #check #clamour #guilty #himself

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#across #around #child #complain #ever

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#abstract thought #exhausted #nothing #politics #remains

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. ↗

— Brad Thor

#hit #lives #never #spot #their

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#feature #flower #great #intuition #life

Those who spend too fast never grow rich. ↗