#dom

When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, “You want me to wear a condom?!”
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #false-conclusion #horrified #horror #mistake

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#wisdom #enlightenment

When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor. Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#boredom

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#prettiness #tea #victorian-society #women #tea

If you are good, they say you are weak. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #good #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#desire #ink #light-speed #literature #literature-quotes

Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dead #dejan-stojanovic #letting-go #literature

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #century #creating #dante #dejan-stojanovic

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. ↗

— Al Boliska

#airline #boredom #hours #interrupted #moments

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. ↗

— John Boehner

#enlightenment #fires #freedoms #historic #ideals