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Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person. ↗

— Derek Luke

#because #better #better person #denzel #denzel washington

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#cherish #dismantled #library #prepared #something

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? ↗

— Robert Hayden

#anger

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. ↗

— John Lukacs

#course #forever #generalizations #like #matter

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

#great #great work #happen #preparing #work

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#because #business #go #going #idiot

Metaphysics is a science. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#science

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). ↗

— Patti Smith

#music

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#all night #anybody #ask #bed #book

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#burning #cookies #explosives #fills #hot