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Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it. But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it. She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of it. She got up with an head-ache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either. Her sensibility was potent enough!


Jane Austen


#sensibility #witty-comments #family

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus. Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt.


Peter J. Carroll


#commentary #magic #imagination

If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.


Ronald A. Knox


#humor #inspiration #inspirational

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.


H.L. Mencken


#men

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.


Margaret Atwood


#human-nature #psychology #social-commentary #nature

..the happy hum of humanity.


Arthur C. Clarke


#social-commentary #science

http://travelsofadam.com/2012/11/trav... Here are some quotes from my book and there are plenty more...


D.C. Gallin


#humour #inspirational #social-commentary #art

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.


Alastair Reynolds


#sf #social-commentary #anarchy

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.


Charlotte Bunch


#comment #even #i #make #man

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.


Winston Churchill


#am #comment #expression #i #i am






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