#bs

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit. ↗

— Adam Levine

#brand #doing #fragrance #i #idea

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#attention #come #commonplace #eternity #eyes

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#joy #pleasures #sometimes #substitutes #whether

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#films #going #i #i love #i see

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#because #doing #i #particularly #perhaps

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #before #constituent #definition #general

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#born #either #first #get #house

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#health #i #obsessive