#brain

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#death #the-soul #business

Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor. ↗

— James Joyce

#seduction #brain

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#brains #heartbreak #marriage #marriage

Women, however, actually utilize their brains when dealing with men. I know, it’s absurd. When a woman looks at a man she sees who he is, who he was, and who he could be. When a man sees a woman, he doesn’t see who she is, he sees what she is: a talking pair of tits. (Men don’t like talking asses). ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brain #men #women #men