#elephant

There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to live with a drug addict, an alcoholic, an abuser. People outside such relationships will sometimes ask, "How could you let such a business go on for so many years? Didn't you see the elephant in the living room?" And it's so hard for anyone living in a more normal situation to understand the answer that comes closest to the truth; "I'm sorry, but it was there when I moved in. I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture." There comes an aha-moment for some folks - the lucky ones - when they suddenly recognize the difference. ↗

— Stephen King

#alcohol #drugs #elephant-in-the-room #business

Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#humor #nature

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. ↗

— George Orwell

#man #shooting-an-elephant #hypocrisy

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#big #control #elephant #learning #like

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#affect #could #elephant #how #human

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#discuss #elephant #race #room #still

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#beast #call #elephant #every #friendly

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes. ↗

— James Patterson

#humor #humor

I have a face like the behind of an elephant. ↗

— Charles Laughton

#elephant #face #i #like

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget. ↗

— Arthur Laurents

#forget #never #never forget #psychoanalysts