#ale

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with. ↗

— James Caan

#career #easiest #get #i #invariably

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway. ↗

— Howard Carter

#doorway #down #expose #had #large

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hangs #lies #long #old #shabby

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#just #just because #lost #our #skirt

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#concepts #defined #did #his #i

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#anatomy #female #had #i #interest

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#how #i #life #live #making

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#a good thing #acquire #after #early #give

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#character #full #life #me #moment