#evie

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#championship #committee #compete #conditions #entry

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#best part #films #haven #i #part

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. ↗

— Linda McMahon

#country #how #i #i think #increases

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate! ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#edge #either #experienced #generous #great

... Wickard's novel colorfully illuminates the two sychronized protagonists, each displaying profound characteristics: Sami has trouble adjusting to her new life and Smitty balances his secret life with his normal one, with a (living) wife and infant daughter at home... ... assertive characters with distinct backgrounds provide a solid fountaion for the story of a killer on the hunt." Kirkus Review February 24, 2012 ↗

— Douglas Wickard

#kirkus-reviews #rave-reviews-kirkus #home

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom--which is bordered on all sides by isolation--is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#age

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. ↗

— John le Carré

#the-art-of-fiction-no- #art

The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#review #the-new-yorker #beauty

The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities that make it precious and by indicating the angle of visions from which its beauties are visible. But many critics do not realize their function. They aim not to appreciate, but to judge; they seek first to draw lines about literature and then bully readers into accepting these laws. ↗

— David Cecil

#literary-criticism #beauty