#fin

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#awhile #because #bit #black #did

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #develops #dots #drive #end

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#final #going #last #made #mind

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#continuous #displaying #finds #get #israel

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#california #civil #civil liberties #considered #crouch

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. ↗

— Della Reese

#born #ghetto #ground #i #i was born

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#did #i #thought #whatever #writer

Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#humour #hunger-games #time

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#been #blame #else #finger #happened