#ali

There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass. ↗

— Iain Banks

#homosexuality #queer #same-sex #change

But it wasn't till he'd been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the walk, having a tiny cup of Paris-tasting, Paris-smelling coffee, watching traffic stream by, pleased as always with the countless people on bikes expertly threading their way between and around the cars and buses and trucks. Then a traffic light changed, the stream stopped and waited, and a man on a bike, one foot on the pavement, lifted his arm and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. And he turned real. In that instant he was no longer a quaint part of a charming background; he turned into a real man, tired from pumping that bike, and for the first time it occurred to my friend that there was a reason so many people picturesquely rode bikes through the heavy traffic, and the reason was to save bus fare and because they couldn't afford cars. After that, for the few days that were left to him there, my friend continued to enjoy Paris. But now it was no longer an immense travel poster but a real city, because now so were its people. ↗

— Jack Finney

#people #reality #travel #change

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#politics #realism #change

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#visualization #change

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#inspirational-quotes #lewis-carroll #change

Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#perceive #reality #relativity #subjectivity #time

Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has eroded. -Jin Yongquan ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#reality #change

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#birth #education #gender #gender-realization #upbringing

If the goal of conservatives is to discourage young people from having sex, they should change their strategy and push to make comprehensive sexual education compulsory. Our educational system has proved that if a subject is taught in a boring enough manner, Americans will make every effort to avoid it for the rest of their lives. If homosexuality was taught in the same manner as trigonometry, even most gay people would have no use for it after graduation. ↗

— Bob Smith

#humor #sex-education #trigonometry #change