#hip

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#be grateful #civil #coming #event #felt

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan. ↗

— David Sedaris

#relationships #romance #sex #family

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. ↗

— David Duke

#affirmative #affirmative action #against #college #discrimination

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. ↗

— Patty Duke

#beings #between #centuries #human #human beings

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. ↗

— John Thorn

#baseball history #championship #ever #had #his way

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#anxiety #been #bit #feel #female

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #lot #only #parents #people

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#go #poets #through #tough #use

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#intellect #life #life

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

#dictatorship #liberty #license #near