#because

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #i #journalist

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bored #boring #call #days

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #cult #doing #i #i am

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#desire #fear #here #itself #life

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. ↗

— David Hockney

#i #i do #listening #lot #me

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. ↗

— David Hockney

#avoid #because #days #english #i

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #bother #could #go #good