“My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
Source: Experience: A Memoir
"Gimme The Loot"
Song lyrics
“My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
Source: Experience: A Memoir
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
ME 13:431
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
Abby Martin (1984) American journalist
Quoted in Interview with Abby Martin and Michael Prysner on Venezuelan Opposition & attacks on Journalism, Kevin Gosztola https://shadowproof.com/2017/06/11/interview-martin-prysner-venezuelan-opposition-violence/ (11 June 2017)
“This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Nagiko
The Pillow Book
“I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (October 5, 1923)
Letters
“France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
Kemi Adeosun (1967) Nigerian accountant, investment banker and politician (born 1967)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
ME 13:426
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)