#hi

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#am #blue #i #red #roses

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #comes #examined #feminists #haven

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#into #lake #lovely #peace #profoundly

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #bore #i #knew #me

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#make #none #reason #sense #some

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#heretic #his #man #own #sees

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#being lazy #drinking #everything #except #lazy

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#experience #remember #something #you

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#energy #film #gone #honestly #i