#wi

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#good #good writing #holding #swimming #under

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#die #even #even now #how #i

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. ↗

— Joan Collins

#bottle #course #happen #irrelevant #just

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#dominate #emotions #heavily #other #pay

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife. ↗

— Joan Collins

#could #husband #i #look #man

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #happy #i #life #limelight

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#anyone #anytime #be grateful #come #did

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#back #come #course #fact #i

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#around #bores #feet #fools #genius