#vere

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#big #big enough #covered #dining #dining room

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arts #discovered #error #exposed #life

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fact #lies #lives #money #overestimated

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#american #brother #common #creatures #earth

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#due #products #reverence #sacraments #seriousness

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #color #covered #explicit #heart

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #colour #covered #explicit #heart

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. ↗

— James A. Michener

#america #china #country #creative #creative expression