#la

Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course. ↗

— Veronique Vienne

#veronique-vienne #art

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him. ↗

— Angela Carter

#baudelaire #boredom #love #art

Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other. ↗

— Toba Beta

#planted #secrecy #men

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.' Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.' I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#humour #pirates #pun #wit #wordplay

Want wat is contact tussen mensen, tussen de mens en de wereld, tussen hem en zijn tijd, anders dan een substituut voor het contact dat geen vragen onbeantwoord laat? Dit boek gaat over de aard van dat verlangen. Over de voorstellingen die in plaats komen van wat we willen omarmen, maar wat we niet kunnen omarmen. En zo komt ook dit boek, net als ieder ander boek, in plaats van wat ik eigenlijk wilde zeggen, maar waar de woorden niet voor zijn. ↗

— Coen Simon

#verlangen #men

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. ↗

— Charles Dow

#pride #men

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#life #art

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fantasy #lady-catelyn #men-and-women #men

God gives gifts to and also of men/women for His purposes in promoting the cause of Christ and His Kingdom". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #men

Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists.
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— Jarod Kintz

#lobbyists #politicians #politics #society #change