Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today. — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and… — Elliott Sharp Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
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