#kin

I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God, was he tall, and handsome. I was surprised, during the night, when he's told me he was only nineteen. I never would have imagined this kind of cool confidence could come so early to a person. But nineteen, after all, wasn't so far off. I remembered how stupid I was in my relations with other people then. ↗

— Michèle Bernstein

#confidence #nineteen #relationships #sex #teenager

of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt ↗

— Desiree Holt

#imagination

with few apparent connections to Afghanistan as such, but there were no calls to bomb Riyadh (imagine if the hijackers had been Iraqi). Rather, Saudi Arabia is a favoured ally in the 'war against terrorism'. It is obvious that at stake here are US geopolitical interests (discussed further below), more than concerns to prevent future terrorism. ↗

— Mark Curtis

#imagination

Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft. ↗

— Jared Tame

#imagination

One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking. ↗

— Edwin V. Mitchell

#walking #imagination

Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire novel's worth of thought would have to be expended on each one. His attention had only to lapse for a moment, between preposition and object, colophon and chapter heading, for dead spots to appear like gangrene that would rot the whole. Silkworms didn't work as finely or as patiently as he must, and yet boldness was all, the large stroke, the end contained in and prophesied by the beginning, the stains of his clouds infinitely various but all signifying sunrise. Unity in diversity, all that guff. An enormous weariness flew over him. The trouble with drink, he had long known, wasn't that it started up these large things but that it belittled the awful difficulties of their execution. ("Novelty") ↗

— John Crowley

#creativity #drinking #writers #writing #imagination

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspiration #soul-seeking #inspirational

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#kindness #lds #inspirational

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#mankind #never #reform #religion #slavery

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ↗

— Ann Landers

#character #class #cockiness #discipline #money