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Quotes About Supportable

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
~ Padgett Powell
it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand so much--everything--in a flash--before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump.
~ Jacob Weisberg