#ed

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#junk #opium #pain #plant #seed

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

#editing #editor #inspirational #reading #writing

I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#did #got #guess #hoping #i

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#inspiring-quotes #mindfulness #rasheed-ogunlaru #simplicity #space

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#unrequited-love #love

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God takes on their cause. The Mosaic law of the Old Testament is filled with regulations to prevent and eliminate poverty. The poor were given the right to glean- to take produce from the unharvested edges of the fields, a portion of the tithes, and a daily wage. The law prevented permanent slavery by releasing Jewish bondsmen and women on the sabbatical and Jubilee year and forbade charging interest on loans. In one of his most tender acts, God made sure that the poor- the aliens, widows, and orphans- were all invited to the feasts. ↗

— Margaret Feinberg

#inspirational #margaret-feinberg #the-sacred-echo #inspirational

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#i #i can #losing #nice #nice guy

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#against #axis #harbor #pearl #pearl harbor

I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#mercedes-thompson #patricia-briggs #philosophy #truth #inspirational