#ld

Let's teach that loving isn't always loving. Like when you loved the hamster so much that it died. Some adults do that too. Too much, the wrong way. These are 'Stay away' zones on your body. These are 'Stay away' people. You don't have to obey all adults. Not even parents. Disagree respectfully. Run, if you need. Shout, if you need. Adults can be bad too. ↗

— Deborah Ainslie

#children #hamsters #love #sex #sex-education

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#anything #builds #certainly #done #gives

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? ↗

— Gore Vidal

#culture #joke #like #other #produced

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#before #entirely #happily #live #must

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#although #appeared #avert #could #countenance

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #books #busyness #how #many

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#dog #english #even #felt #good