#tory

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #been #conditions #experienced #housing

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#full #good #good stories #got #history

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #hand #other #perfect #short

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. ↗

— Tom Waits

#dream #every #forget #getting #history

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#almost #complex #even #exciting #great

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#factory #hope #lipstick #make #our

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. ↗

— George Wald

#history #ideal #immortality #men #pursued

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#became #began #caricature #find #heat

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. ↗

— David Walliams

#absolute #adult #book #books #charlie