#ect

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#getting #me #novel #perfect #point

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ↗

— George Orwell

#assume #be happy #happiness #happy #life

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#apology #correct #demand #explanation #only

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. ↗

— Paul Auster

#any #being #believe #controlling #demoralizing

I do like directing other people's material. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#i #i do #like #material #other

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#managers #respected #staff #stage #ushers

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline. ↗

— George S. Patton

#only #perfect #sort

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. ↗

— James Payn

#effect #genial #hand #means #occasional

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#between #consciousness #demands #ears #finger

When you're with girl you want to be with, everything's perfect. ↗

— Diego Boneta

#girl #perfect #want #you