#wit

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cultural #feel #few #few things #i

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#am #everyone #half #i #i am

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ↗

— Chanakya

#causes #destroy #does #family #forest

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#advertising #already #certain #certain way #communicate

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#deeper #figuring #finding #first #got

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#case #does #easy #facebook #hard

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#always #building #companies #cool #friends

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#i #knickers #line #me #off

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #kiss #like #precisely #reader