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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#base #discretion #fleet #glory #headed

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#always #between #breeze #comes #cracking

It's easy to demonize from a distance. ↗

— Rick Warren

#distance #easy

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#begin #i #myself #recognize #seen

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#beginning #dimensions #finishes #happen #i

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#five #were #writers

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. ↗

— Dale Turner

#better #correct #failed #mistake #nothing

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#because #breaking #elvis #empty #everybody

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#arguing #behind #cartoons #creepy #desk

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#certain ways #chance #get #god #greatest