#in

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#bore #boredom #crime #first #perhaps

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#courage #cowardice #feelings #love #measure

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#commands #higher #more #price #seduction

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#drama #empty #fiction #filled #jodi-picoult

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#also #between #capital #double #each

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#dancing #eager #faces #male #more

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#him #only #others #politician #says

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#bear #die #having #i #me