#ali

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#being #capable #chances #could #fulfilled

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#apprenticeship #craft #else #like #most

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#every #every time #feel #hugging #just

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#every #every time #hug #just #like

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. ↗

— Parker Posey

#casting #comedy #deep #depression #flip

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#experience

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#altogether #argue #certain #experience #fundamentalism

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#continually #images #parcel #part #personality

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#bid #box #california #coast #i