“(On libraries) What’s great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don’t have to steal it from a bookshop… You know when you’re young, you’re growing up, they’re almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they’re kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go ‘Oh!’”—
Stephen Fry (via evileskimo)
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
Nadine Gordimer
“The rest of this (interview) will be on the web…which is a series of tubes.”
Jon Stewart to Lou Dobbs
“It’s okay to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you’re gonna have to pass through Alright. And when you get to Alright, take a good look around, get used to it. ‘Cause that may be as far as you’re gonna go.”
Bill Withers (from Still Bill: The Documentary, airing this Sat. Nov 21 at Aqua Books)
“The thing about my music is, there really is no point.”
Neil Young
“It is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.”
Bill Withers
“I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, ‘That’s the last time I’m going up one of those.’”
Stephen Fry on his sexuality
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”
Lionel Trilling
“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
Lionel Trilling
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
Lionel Trilling
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?”
Ann Landers
(via iwannotowidigdo)
“I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me - but I went away…and wanted to shoot myself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
(via whokilled)
(via whokilled)
“When you’re young, you think it’s all about you. You know you’re old when you realize that none of it’s about you.”
Kelly Hughes
“I don’t want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won’t buy tickets to see her act.”
Vincent Price
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