#itani

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#orthodox #puritanical #twice

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash. ↗

— Keith Moon

#crash #earthquakes #full-time #i #major

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not? ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bored #cast #doing #grew #how

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. ↗

— Kate Millett

#behavior #code #ever #given #having

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#puritanical #society #somewhat #still #ways

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dreams

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#flood #humor #ship #sink #titanic

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues. ↗

— David Markson

#lenny-bruce #m-forster #nathaniel-hawthorne #norms #puritanism

Things work out the way they're meant to ↗

— Danielle Steel

#romance #titanic #love