#manages

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#affairs #before #breath #does #draws

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#adam #adam sandler #better #between #brooks

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#lifetime #lightning #man #manages #out

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. ↗

— Len Wein

#effect #how #makes #manages #reader

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#criticism #endures #even #even worse #fox

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#any #bomb #cannot #country #create