#lit

...Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman. Even metaphysics couldn't keep that from being whorey. ↗

— Sierra Dean

#love-triangles #sexuality #humor

The political brain is shaped like a peanut, only not as big.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #peanuts #politics #humor

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#reality #humor

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels. ↗

— Claudia Pemberton

#military #soldiers #inspirational

If two negatives make a positive, then why don't two wrongs make a right? ↗

— Savannah MEE

#humor

I want to have five or six wives, and a few dozen sheep, all for my pleasure. I should be a politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#politician #politics #humor

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job? ↗

— Dick Cheney

#politics #humor

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#literature #place #topography #imagination

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#inspirational #responsibility #inspirational

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#reflective #solitude #spiritual #inspirational