#ld

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#could #enslaved #got #how #i

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ↗

— Javan

#everything #i #like #someone #something

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? ↗

— Edwin Markham

#feet #green #here #incredible #itself

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humanity #imagination #loneliness #poetry #solipsism

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#cain #devil #god #ham #preserved

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#american #american people #appreciation #credit #dutiful

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#agreed #bring #difficult #enforcing #form

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#find #forever #happiness #nothing #only

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#because #become #deplorable #each #especially