Words & Letters
“When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far,” and this was often the case.” ― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
“The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.” ― Trevor Noah, ‘Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood’
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” – George Orwell, 1984
“I like John Hughes movies” – John Singleton
“If you want to look good in front of thousands then you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.” ― Damian Lillard