#words

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#over #paper #somehow #structural #tend

The stitch of a book is its words. ↗

— Rumer Godden

#stitch #words

I am a man of few words, but many riddles. ↗

— Frank Gorshin

#few #i #i am #man #many

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death #the-book-thief #words #death

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one. ↗

— James Gunn

#come #dozen #good #ideas #just

The will of life and death, never share the same motivation... we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for... but let’s not kid ourselves... ...we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from the dead is vengeance. ↗

— Non Nomen

#religion #spirituality #the-unwords #death

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that. ↗

— Frank Hague

#american #communist #constitutional #constitutional rights #every