#diction

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#advance #avoid #characters #contradictions #detail

Impossibility is a dictionary word. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#impossibility #word

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate. ↗

— John Dingell

#close #democrats #house #i #i think

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ↗

— Eva Figes

#against #any #because #considered #definition

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

I curse you," it said. "All who love you will die. Their love will be their destruction. It may take moments, it may take years, but any who look upon you with love will die of it, unless you remove yourself from them forever. And I shall begin it with her." It snarled in Ella’s direction, and vanished. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit. ↗

— VIZ

#dictionary #humor #swearing #humor

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#darkness #deception #faith #hope #life

Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole. ↗

— John Cheese

#asshole #cracked #friendship #friendship

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. ↗

— Elon Musk

#cars #electric #fully #hybrid #i