#got

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#change #got #middle #never #night

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#heathcliff #destruction

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome. ↗

— Ian Buruma

#bigotry #cold-war #leftism #politics #united-states

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#form #history #never #stories #taught

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stealing #thieves #warning #sin

I am the burrito in the taco. Hold your skepticism, and the lettuce. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#prejudice #racism #small-mindedness #prejudice

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#description #gothic #owl #purple #ruin

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bigot #bigotry #bigots #delusion #denial