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All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. ↗


— Marcel Duchamp


#chess #god #language #life #religion

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions. ↗


— Maryrose Wood


#greek-tragedy #humor #reading #humor

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way -- and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. (p. 53) ↗


— Geneen Roth


#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ↗


— James Agate


#cannot #conceal #director #engaged #fact

That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said. I told you, they age slower out here. It's all the fresh California air," Val replied. Yes, because that's exactly what Los Angeles is known for," Kate said dryly. "Clean air. ↗


— Julie James


#humor #los-angeles #age

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. ↗


— Wendell Berry


#farming #soil #age

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology. ↗


— Michael Shermer


#science #science-fiction #age

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship. ↗


— Frederick Buechner


#freedom

I need to get my wedding ring resized, because it still fits tight around my neck. ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#marriage #humor

How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside? ↗


— Ann Marie Aguilar


#free #freedom #trap #freedom






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