#tract

Life is a means of extracting fiction. ↗

— Robert Stone

#fiction #life #life is a #means

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#attracted #completely #get #i #i am

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

#creed #institutions #judaism #lives

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#been #cause #certain #death #energy

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#bit #bored #country #dramatic #engaged

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#creativity #distracted #eventually #get #horny

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ↗

— Christian Dior

#attractive #secret #without #zest