I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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Dodie Smith
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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John Green
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
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David Wood
I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while–just once in a while–there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting...
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J.d. Salinger
Self-education is lifelong curiosity.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Renata Adler
People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
He writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of...
There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether you marry, whether you insist that your child take piano lessons, what are the brand names on your shelf; all these...
Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that...
