#not

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#death #deaths #differ #even #lives

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#common #doors #fires #houses #kind

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#comes #day #doing #door #himself

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#answered #ask #cannot #come #creative

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#back #berlin #childhood #days #i

The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#another way #fresh #hours #keep #noon

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' ↗

— Ben Fountain

#another way #bloomer #late #late bloomer #learner

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#another #childhood #comes #drawing #everything