#rug

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #hard #i #me #reign

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#love #lust #only #sentimentality #struggle

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

My new employer made me get a drug test, so I ripped off my shirt, flexed my muscles, and said, “You suspect me of taking steroids, don’t you? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #steroids #funny

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world. ↗

— Charles Bowden

#war #family

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. ↗

— Anna Friel

#addict #away #baby #because #been

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. ↗

— Fred Frith

#art #being #debates #downtown #ends

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#after #any #coming #could #decision

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#change #controlled #men #past #struggling