#ions

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#clive #extinguishers #fashions #lewis #staples

He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#dungeons-and-dragons #ferrets #geeks #nerds #men

It’s like a man in the trenches again: he doesn’t know any more why he should go on living, because if he escapes now he’ll only be caught later, but he goes on just the same, and even though he has the soul of a cockroach and has admitted as much to himself, give him a gun or a knife or even just his bare nails, and he’ll go on slaughtering and slaughtering, he’d slaughter a million men rather than stop and ask himself why. ↗

— Henry Miller

#slaughter #soldiers #trenches #men

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#love #relationships #love

In no time we roll into Sedona proper and find a Cirlce K. The place is full of men with silver ponytails and ratty sandals, old hippie women in loose flowing pants grinning vacantly as they molest the produce, and I am reminded of my old neighborhood in San Francisco. We buy enough fruit and bread and jerked meat for three days, as well as a couple spare handlers of SoCo and a big bottle of cheap Chianti for me. As I'm paying I wonder at how we cling so relentlessly to the little conventions like commerce, as though they can save us. ↗

— Ron Currie Jr.

#conventions #men

It’s pretty clear that they must have had some kind of romantic relationship, because it is impossible to hate a man that much who you haven’t blown in the men’s room of a four-star luxury hotel ↗

— Dominique Suches-Koch

#love

Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#men

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection. ↗

— Himmilicious

#men #relationships #love

The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face. ↗

— Darmie Orem

#love #men #relationship #wisdom #women

In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love #love-humor #men #relationships #love