#ex

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#life

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#generation #next #next election #politician #statesman

If hitting an unexpected speed bump with your car equates to the best sex you've had lately, you know your hormones are sending you a signal. ↗

— Ellen Phillips

#sex #humor

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#life #life

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#itch #lets #love #momentary #never

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves. ↗

— Henry Miller

#life #life

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. (h.5) ↗

— Goenawan Mohamad

#expect #hope #life #life

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win. ↗

— Asa Gray

#assent #charitable #could #expect #full

Dios, she'd never come so hard in her life. How many people died this way? How would he ever explain to the ambulance crews that he'd chained his girlfriend out on the deck and killed her with too many orgasms? ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#sex-heaven #life