#double

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. ↗

— Iain Banks

#double #really #say #saying #skill

It's nice not to have to live a double life. ↗

— Lance Bass

#life #live #nice

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. ↗

— Robert Englund

#destiny #double #freddy #i #jason

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep. ↗

— Richard Branson

#beds #double #go #introducing #night

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#also #burden #double #effects #energy

I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#double-entendres #love

[on Purgatory] It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated--open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#purgatory #music

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #consumer #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#double #him #like #may #most

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. ↗

— Aeschylus

#burden #burdened #disease #doubles #groans