#lis

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#journalism

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#journalism

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#journalism

I give boring people something to discuss over corn. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#sensationalism #gossip

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#gossip

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#intellectualism #sex

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#existentialism #conformity

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#description

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-actualization #names

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #foolishness #fools #shame