#ang

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#literature #magic #modernism #myth #surrealism

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#anything #brooklyn #change #easiest #experience

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is! ↗

— Jeffrey Gitomer

#humor-inspirational #change

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free. ↗

— Isabel Lopez

#forgiving #letting-go #pain #resentment #setting-yourself-free

My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#change

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. ↗

— Kim Hubbard

#change

I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#romance #vampires #anger

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. ↗

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#arrange #compelling #could #discover #enough