#lit

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#freedom #history #learn #lose #politics

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle. ↗

— Henry Miller

#sexuality #miracles

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#lies #lying #oral-sex #sex #sexuality

We know what we are, but not what we may be. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#identity #possibilities #being

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. ↗

— Judy Garland

#greatness #individuality #being

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#children

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#fairies #fantasy #peter-pan #children

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.  ↗

— David Platt

#dreams

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#recycled-by-bil-keane #recycled-by-eleanor-roosevelt #children

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#heart