#etc

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. ↗

— Aeschylus

#better #born #death #easier #fare

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch. ↗

— Luther Allison

#down #face #i #look #my self

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#exercises #horn #i #i do #little

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#came #comedy #crowd #doing #half

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#pretty-girls #sketch #nature

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ↗

— Lucius Accius

#fame #his #indeed #makes #man

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#am #been #days #disabled #environment

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#back #better #body #clothes #days