#rote

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#four #get #guys #hitters #i

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#approve #book #bride #burnt #done

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. ↗

— Jack Vance

#away #countless #done #find #fit

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. ↗

— Max Frisch

#answer #best #convictions #everything #finds

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#another #boring #business #different #harm

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. ↗

— Julien Green

#always #am #end #i #i am

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#explain #friend #i #into #jim

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#become #cause #cited #could #doctrine

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#i #integrity #objection #people #process

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go