#nin

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #intelligence #maurice-sendak #meaning #art

But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#behalf #country #happy #i #life

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. ↗

— Stephen King

#family #mourning #death

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#around #certainly #i #listening #making

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. ↗

— Thomas More

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I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#am #attraction #burning #dominated #i

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#became #charge #distinction #education #half

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#interesting #meaningful #imagination

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #change-the-world #improvement #strategy #success-self-improvement

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones. ↗

— Desmond Morris

#deal #equal #examining #fundamental #great