#tin

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. ↗

— F. E. Smith

#glittering #hearts #offer #prizes #sharp

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film. ↗

— Sean Young

#exciting #film #find #i #incredible

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#retirement #writing #age

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#writing #age

Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present your baby to society and provide her with dowry, and in your heart, you hope that some royalty spends a night with her and ensures her way to success. ↗

— Elvira Baryakina

#age

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#death #getting-old #getting-older #wasting-time #age

I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions. ↗

— Katie Kiesler

#poetry #writing #age

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock. ↗

— Len Filppu

#parenting #age

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#vision #writing #art