#cring

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#called #cringe #defiance #evil #evils

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe. ↗

— Grace Slick

#doing #i #makes #me #old

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#cring #fables #greed #poverty #sorrow

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things. ↗

— Jude Law

#always #am #anything #away #because

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#critics #i #master #novel #popular