“One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.”
― Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
― Oscar Wilde
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller yet to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.
~~ Jonathan Swift
"On Poetry: A Rhapsody"
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
I would not go looking for one, but I would try it if offered one by a friend.
@tsarstepan,
The vacuous nature of city dwellers.
“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.”
― Ezra Pound
@edgarblythe,
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
George Orwell
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
David Lloyd George
Jim Morrison
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
― Jim Morrison
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
~~ H. L. Mencken
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller
@timur,
A gentleman wouldn't dare agree with that in mixed company.
@spendius,
Depending of course, on the standards of said gentleman..
"Why, did you **** in yours?"- A girl at the Sandbar in Baltimore responding to a wit who told her he'd like to get in her pants.
If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
Elmore Leonard
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin
