#may

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#maya-angelou #defeat

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep. Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep. While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink. ↗

— Otep Shamaya

#machine #otep #shamaya #smash #media

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #lively

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#baby boomers #bad #bad guys #big #boomers

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#because #been #childhood #demented #early

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre. ↗

— Katie Holmes

#even #i #i think #maybe #movie

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. ↗

— Henry Brooke

#book #cannot #compared #early #get

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#degrade #efficient #his way #instrument #made

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arbitrary #aside #believe #conception #even