Ben Fountain The main thing about writing is… writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. – Ben Fountain Butt Quotes Chair Quotes Main Quotes Sitting Quotes Writing Quotes The national framework of social insurance – social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers’ compensation – protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn’t or wouldn’t insure. Political rights notwithstanding, ‘freedom’ rings awfully hollow when you’re getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.
J F C Fuller To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. – J F C Fuller
Robert Love The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every conceivable data structure and its subforms, with memorization of each’s Big-O value and amortized cost. – Robert Love
CoolCraig McCracken I’m a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool. – Craig McCracken
Adrian Peterson I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what’s a groin? What’s an adductor? That’s how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you’re in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want. – Adrian Peterson
Jonathan Miles Novelists lie for a living – what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? – but generally see a distinction between lying on the page and lying off it. – Jonathan Miles
Felicity Huffman The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, ‘Was I thin at that time or fat?’ And it doesn’t seem to let up. – Felicity Huffman
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