#at

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa ↗

— Peter Mutanda

#inspirational #inspirational

The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humility #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #attitude

In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first foray into consuming smut. It was because of Burroughs that I knew about the particular musk that blooms when a rectum is penetrated, and that death-by-hanging produces spontaneous trouser tents. The first Burroughs I read was Naked Lunch, but I buried myself in a few of his stories, and thus the arc of my recollection is just as non-linear as his narrative. ↗

— Peter Dubé

#coming-of-age #erotica #homosexuality #literature #queer

Diperlukan waktu hanya sepuluh tahun untuk menanam dan memelihara sebatang pohon, tapi memerlukan waktu paling sedikit 100 tahun untuk membentuk sebuah karakter jiwa. ↗

— Zhuge Liang

#art

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations. ↗

— Beth Orton

#i #kind #limitations #think #used

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself. ↗

— Beth Orton

#greatest #i #itself #say

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio. ↗

— Beth Orton

#bumped #couple #days #get #harper

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#death

He's got a can up there,' Richard said. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#reflection #wonderful #nature

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#bad habit #habit #interrupting #kelly #rather