#mut

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#earth #exalted #holy #immutable #impressive

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant! ↗

— Anna Paquin

#being #being a teenager #everything #feeling #fit

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#attempt #being #love #love is #mutual

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#blockbuster #emotional #exclusive #i #i think

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. ↗

— Bessie Head

#each #feeding #like #living #love

How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#mutation #virus #change

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. ↗

— Graham Greene

#greeneland #life #mutability #change

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#experience #facts #mutton #nonsense #sheep

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#mutability #pleasure #art