#mo

I’d never name my kid Mark, for fear he’d be a target—a mark.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #humor #random #random-thought

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, that of the modeler from Anspach, who slowly squeezed the soul and the life out of his model in order to animate his painted waxwork and then, having finished his work of art, awaited nightfall to go and bury the corpse in the ditch at the city walls. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#murder #waxworks #age

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#humor

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#humor #death

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground? ↗

— Maria Rodale

#health #non-gmo #nutrition #organic #home

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off. ↗

— Jennifer Armintrout

#humor #death

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. -Daine ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#humor #scholar #humor

Soap?" "School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP". Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#humor #humor

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#mess #pigsty #humor

What year did Jesus think it was? ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #jesus-christ #religion #time #humor