#who

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. ↗

— Henry Adams

#come #damnation #god #goodness #happy

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #color #different #different color #different kind

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ↗

— Henry Adams

#man #only #through #who #woman

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#examine #government #high #know #literary

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#great pride #held #higher #higher standard #jewish

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. ↗

— Amy Adams

#down #high #high school #i #musical

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ability #almost #also #apparent #beings

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#fish #i #i think #judge #nice

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

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