#masks

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. ↗

— Guy Debord

#behind #choice #confront #different #each

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#behind #career #different #earlier #felt

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#big #case #children #ears #faces

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#away #bombs #days #frightened #gas

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#chemical #gear #here #i #i can

I hated meatloaf. It was like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. So I told Mom because I was honest that way. I sat back, squared my shoulders, and met her eyes, all confident-like. "Mom, meatloaf's like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. It should be outlawed, frankly, and serving it for dinner is like child abuse and should carry with it some pretty stiff penalties. ↗

— Hayden Thorne

#funny #masks #meatloaf #funny

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms—and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too—end up in their shadow. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#layers #masks #beauty

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#bringing #character #complete #conflict #create

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life

I winced. I just said "creamed." I felt so deprived and miserably virginal. ↗

— Hayden Thorne

#masks #virginal #funny