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The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera. ↗

— Emilia Pardo Bazán

#opera #political #dictatorship

Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ford-prefect #adam

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#pride #reason #nobility

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#change #inspirational #change

If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #happiness #life #love #relationship

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#sadface #change

I hate the notion of a secret recipe. Recipes are by nature derivative and meant to be shared - that is how they improve, are changed, how new ideas are formed. To stop a recipe in it's tracks, to label it "secret" just seems mean. ↗

— Molly Wizenberg

#humor #recipes #change

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it... ↗

— Alexander Shulgin

#character #drugs #shulgin #change

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#equanimity #knowledge #meditation #mind #reality

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#blood #body #pulse #theology #theology