#mo

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? ↗

— Amor Towles

#amor

—¿Qué somos entonces? —Dos almas torturadas que se necesitan desesperadamente la una a la otra. ↗

— Anissa B. Damom

#amor #amor

Demasiado tarde, siempre, porque aunque hiciéramos tantas veces el amor la felicidad tenía que ser otra cosa, algo quizá más triste que esta paz y este placer, un aire como de unicornio o isla, una caída interminable en la inmovilidad ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#amor

I use Facebook to broadcast my intellectual luggage". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#emotional-health #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home. ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#humor

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#united-states #ussr #united-states

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. ↗

— Aberjhani

#books #creativity #determination #dreams #endurance

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#anne-shirley #dimples #fiction #l-m-montgomery #dreams

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality. ↗

— Charlie Brooker

#science #dreams