#own

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own. ↗

— Emily Procter

#being #bottom #emancipation #felt #figure

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#ago #around #broke #country #different

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#creates #facade #my own #novel #own

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#effort #insurrection #john #peculiar #slave

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#family #i #thing #through #tied

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#damn #i #known #never #who

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement