#english

If the driving force behind bettering human life is our insatiable desire to escape mortality what will we do when we succeed? ↗

— Tim J. Brooks

#life

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#majors #reading-books #love

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men. ↗

— Helen Keller

#true-to-life #life

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#courage

Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#death

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#french #humour #language #london #paris

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#english language #government #help #here #i

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#english

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#english

All I ever wanted was a world without maps. ↗