#lit

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#sex #uncertainty #death

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#far #literally #move #reason #skirts

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#anyone #credibility #hard #know #media

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#i #look #natural #natural state #opportunities

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#chance #filing #find #firm #gave

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#every #interest #military #nuclear #nuclear power

So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#broader #democratic #democratic party #different #i

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#amount #demagoguery #dying #fix #gentlemen

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#anything #defend #doing #halloween #i