"Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't."

-- Joan Didion

#Reading Quotes #Simple Quotes #Twelve Quotes

“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”

Source : Ralph Venning (1652). “Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture”
“The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.”
“Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing.”
“Tired of being unhappy? Fix it.”
“The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.”
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
“That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.”
“[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.”

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