#wes

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#coming-of-age #western #age

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #creating #inspirational #ravi-shankar #writing

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died ↗

— Donato DiCristino

#donato #heaven-and-hell #hollywood #limbo-bimbo #magical-prowess

There is confidence convergence when mental prowess and business aptitude mesh. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#prowess #attitude

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #we-ll-always-have-summer #beauty

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#peeps #scott-la #scott-westerfeld #life

The new girl looked up and caught me looking at her.I looked away, but it wasbto late. I tried not to smile, but I was embarrassed, and that only made me smile more. she didn't seem to notice. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#europe #islamic #state #wanted #west